Cambodia's war crimes court Friday rejected the appeal a man who ran a Khmer Rouge regime torture prison and instead increased the man's sentence to life imprisonment.
Cambodia's war crimes court is to rule Friday on an appeal by a man who ran a notorious torture prison where more than 14,000 people died under the Khmer Rouge regime in the 1970s.
Director Thet Sambath sets out to track down war criminals. "Enemies of the People" documents his findings.
Four of the top former surviving Khmer Rouge cadre were charged with war crimes in Cambodia by a U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal for their role in the late 1970s genocide that left nearly one-quarter of the country's population dead, the court said Thursday.
Lawyers for a man who ran a notorious torture prison in Cambodia where more than 14,000 people died during the 1970s Khmer Rouge regime are appealing his conviction.
Prosecutors in Cambodia on Monday appealed the 30-year sentence handed down to a man who ran a notorious torture prison in the Southeast Asian nation where more than 14,000 people died under the 1970s Khmer Rouge regime.
Carrying burning incense sticks and pink lotuses and wearing scarves of mourning, dozens of people marked the deaths of 14,000 victims of the 1970s Khmer Rouge regime at the S-21 torture prison in the Cambodian capital Sunday, one day before a genocide tribunal renders the verdict in its first case against the man who ran S-21.
Hundreds of Cambodians gathered at the Khmer Rouge genocide tribunal Monday to hear its historic first verdict in a case against a man who ran a notorious torture prison where 14,000 people died.
Prosecutors in the trial of a former Khmer Rouge prison chief asked a U.N.-backed Cambodian court Wednesday to sentence the man to 40 years in prison for his role in the torture and deaths of thousands.
Norng Chan Phal ran through the notorious Khmer Rouge prison S-21 in the Cambodian capital as a 9-year-old boy, frantically looking for his mother after their torturers had fled from advancing Vietnamese troops in 1979.
The commandant of the most notorious Khmer Rouge torture camp goes on trial. CNN's Dan Rivers reports.
Attorneys for Kaing Guek Eav lobbied Wednesday to ease conditions under which the former Khmer Rouge prison chief is being held during his trial.
Kaing Guek Eav on Tuesday expressed sorrow for his actions 30 years ago as a prison chief for the Khmer Rouge regime, as he stood before the tribunal trying him for alleged war crimes.
The trial of a former prison chief with the Khmer Rouge movement resumed inside a packed Cambodian courtroom Monday, with prosecutors painting a grim picture of inmates who were electrocuted, whipped and beaten to death.
Kaing Guek Eav is an elderly former math teacher and a born-again Christian.
A former member of Cambodia's genocidal Khmer Rouge regime became the first from the ultra-Maoist movement to stand trial before a U.N.-backed tribunal Tuesday.
A former member of Cambodia's genocidal Khmer Rouge regime became the first from the ultra-Maoist movement to stand trial before a U.N.-backed tribunal Tuesday.
A former member of Cambodia's genocidal Khmer Rouge regime will be the first from the ultra-Maoist movement to stand trial before a U.N. backed tribunal in late February, the court announced Monday.
With the detention of Pol Pot's former deputy, Cambodia comes closer to justice for the victims of the Khmer Rouge
Ta Mok, the former Khmer Rouge military chief known as "The Butcher" has died in a Cambodian military hospital, government officials said. He was 80.
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