The Right of Appeal and Cambodia Inmate Transportation Crisis

01-Feb-2010

Publication : Report

Over 500 inmates with pending appeals are detained in Cambodias provinces, some of them hundreds of kilometers away from the nations only appeals court in Phnom Penh. Due to Cambodias near total lack of a long distance inmate transportation network, these inmates are at grave risk of being denied one of the most basic elements of a fair trial The right to have a conviction and sentence properly reviewed by a higher tribunal1.

Information Source : The Right of Appeal and Cambodia Inmate Transportation Crisis

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