Guilty Verdict…
Yorm Bopha, Land Rights Activist and Amnesty International Prisoner of Conscience was found guilty at her Appeals Trial in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, this afternoon. Her sentence was reduced to 2 years instead of 3 for allegedly having beaten up moto-dup drivers (with the help of her brothers who are on the run). Most of the local Human Rights organisations consider the accusations as being part of an intimidation process aiming to break the resistance of the Boeung Kak Lake community which is involved in a 4-year long battle about a land issue.
Under a driving rain which lasted all the way through the trial, some 400 people carrying signs, sitting on puppets representing corrupt officials, screaming and chanting through bullhorns and loudspeakers, showed their support to Yorm Bopha.
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