31-Dec-2009
Publication : Report
Over 500 inmates with pending appeals are detained in Cambodia provinces, some of them hundreds of kilometers away from the nation 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 tribunal.
Information Source : The Rights of Appeal & Cambodia Inmate Transportation Crisis