Documents in Dispute: Debates Over Evidence Delay Witness Testimony

  • by Christine Evans, Clinical Fellow, Center for International Human Rights, Northwestern University School of Law (JD and LLM)
  • — 15 Dec, 2011

The hearings in Trial 002 at the ECCC ended for the year with a heated session with continuous debates over documentary evidence. These arguments frequently interrupted the examinations of both prosecution witness Long Norin and accused Nuon Chea, eventually ceasing any progress in the testimony of the latter.

For this final day of the hearing, the public gallery remained filled during both sessions, with villagers in the morning and students in the afternoon. The tension in the courtroom kept the audience engaged throughout the proceedings, giving the security guards in the gallery a break from their daily task of spotting and waking napping students…

Read more: ctm_blog_12-15-11_CTM Blog Entry_Trial 002

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