Cambodia Tribunal Monitor Web Site Posts Video of First Pre-Trial Public Hearing on Cambodia Tribunal

U.S. Newswire, November, 2007

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CHICAGO, Nov. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- The Cambodia Tribunal Monitor Web site today posted complete videotaped coverage of the first pre- trial public hearing of appeal by Person Under Detention Kaing Guek Eav in the long-awaited special war crimes tribunal in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

The November 20 public hearing, held by the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), concerned the appeal of Kiang Guek Eav, also known as "Comrade Duch," against the Order for Provisional Detention. Duch has been charged with carrying out executions and torture at the Tuol Sleng prison, where 17,000 people were incarcerated in Phnom Penh during the Khmer Rouge...