Civil Party: “We Were Living in a Prison without Walls”

  • by Doreen Chen, Senior Consultant, Destination Justice, and LLM, Columbia Law School
  • — 4 Dec, 2012

Hearings at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) resumed in an eventful manner on Tuesday, December 4, 2012, after a week-long break observing the Cambodian Water Festival. The Trial Chamber commenced the day by ordering accused person Ieng Sary to participate in the proceedings from his holding cells2 despite his revocation of a waiver of his presence in the courtroom during certain testimony and strenuous opposition from his counsel Michael Karnavas…

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