{"id":3058,"date":"2013-03-04T16:13:16","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T09:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adhoc-cambodia.org\/?p=3058"},"modified":"2018-06-19T16:53:01","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T09:53:01","slug":"joint-statement-cambodian-civil-society-concerned-at-appeal-court%e2%80%99s-decision-to-reinvestigate-charges-against-chhouk-bandith-at-provincial-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adhoccambodia.org\/km\/joint-statement-cambodian-civil-society-concerned-at-appeal-court%e2%80%99s-decision-to-reinvestigate-charges-against-chhouk-bandith-at-provincial-court\/","title":{"rendered":"(English) JOINT STATEMENT: Cambodian Civil Society Concerned at Appeal Court\u2019s Decision to Reinvestigate Charges Against Chhouk Bandith at Provincial Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"qtranxs-available-languages-message qtranxs-available-languages-message-km\">Sorry, this entry is only available in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adhoccambodia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3058\" class=\"qtranxs-available-language-link qtranxs-available-language-link-en\" title=\"English\">English<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We, the undersigned civil society organizations, welcome the decision by the Cambodian Court of Appeal today to reopen criminal charges against former Bavet City Governor, Chhouk Bandith. However, we are concerned that the investigation will take place under the jurisdiction of Svay Rieng Provincial Court, which has proven once before that it may be susceptible to political pressure exerted by Mr. Bandith and his supporters. Given the evidence, we welcome the prospect of new investigation. This process should be transparent and offer guarantees of independence and rights of the defense if it is to provide justice for the victims and demonstrate that the rich and powerful cannot act with impunity when accused of grave crimes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[304,118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-press-release-and-statement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adhoccambodia.org\/km\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adhoccambodia.org\/km\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adhoccambodia.org\/km\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adhoccambodia.org\/km\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adhoccambodia.org\/km\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3058"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.adhoccambodia.org\/km\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6680,"href":"https:\/\/www.adhoccambodia.org\/km\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3058\/revisions\/6680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adhoccambodia.org\/km\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adhoccambodia.org\/km\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adhoccambodia.org\/km\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}