Pre-Trial Chamber Denies Two Appeals Challenging the Legality of Khieu Samphan’s Provisional Detention

  • by Laura MacDonald, Member of the New York Bar and Consultant to the Center for International Human Rights, Northwestern University School of Law
  • — 3 Jul, 2009

In a public session this afternoon, the Pre-Trial Chamber (PTC) summarized its 41-page decision denying two related appeals from Khieu Samphan. Consequently, he may be detained until November 19, 2009.

In brief, the PTC upheld the two orders on the basis that they were free from procedural defects, there are well-founded reasons to believe Khieu committed the crimes with which he is charged, detention is a necessary measure for his security and public order, and the co-investigating judges properly exercised their discretion.

Khieu, the Head of State of Democratic Kampuchea, was arrested on November 17, 2007 and has been detained since that time. Currently under investigation, he is charged with Crimes against Humanity and Grave Breaches of the Geneva Conventions of 1949…

Read more: ctm_blog_7-3-2009

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