Cambodian court hears appeal case by opposition leader

Oct 5, 2010
DPA

Phnom Penh - Cambodia's appeal court on Tuesday heard the case brought by opposition leader Sam Rainsy against his two-year jail term imposed in a dispute over border markers with Vietnam.

The court said it would announce the verdict on October 13.

Sam Rainsy, who lives in France, was sentenced in absentia in January on charges of racial incitement and damaging public property after he uprooted border markers along the Cambodian-Vietnam border in October 2009.

Two Cambodian villagers were jailed for a year over the same incident.