Case 001 Appeal Judgment: Duch Sentenced to Life

  • by Randle DeFalco, Legal Advisor, Documentation Center of Cambodia
  • — 3 Feb, 2012

On Friday, February 3, 2012, the Supreme Court Chamber (SCC) of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) issued its judgment on appeal in Case 001 against Kaing Guek Eav, alias Duch. Duch had previously been convicted by the ECCC Trial Chamber (TC) of crimes against humanity and war crimes and sentenced to a term of 35 years of imprisonment. This sentence was reduced by the Trial Chamber to a total term of 19 additional years to account for time already served and the violation of Duch’s human rights by the Cambodian government, which, as the TC held, had arrested and detained him in 1999 unlawfully…

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