The court of Cambodia’s Svay Rieng province on January 27 sentenced Sam Rainsy, President of the Sam Rainsy Party, to two years in prison for damaging State property and inciting racial discrimination.
According to the court, Sam Rainsy and five other accomplices, on October 25, 2009 uprooted temporary poles that mark the position of markers to be planted by the Vietnam-Cambodia Joint Committee for Border Affairs on the Cambodia-Vietnam borderline.
The court also ordered Sam Rainsy to pay 60 million Riel (around 15,000 USD) in fines.
The five accomplices each received a one-year jail term on charges of destroying public property./.
According to the court, Sam Rainsy and five other accomplices, on October 25, 2009 uprooted temporary poles that mark the position of markers to be planted by the Vietnam-Cambodia Joint Committee for Border Affairs on the Cambodia-Vietnam borderline.
The court also ordered Sam Rainsy to pay 60 million Riel (around 15,000 USD) in fines.
The five accomplices each received a one-year jail term on charges of destroying public property./.
