Cambodia: Release scapegoats for killing of trade union leader

Headline Title: Cambodia: Release scapegoats for killing of trade union leader 01 May 2013 Two men wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for the killing of prominent trade union leader Chea Vichea in 2004 should be released immediately, Amnesty International said today, on International Labour Day. Following an unfair trial, Born Samnang, 32, and Sok Sam Oeun, 45, were sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2005 after being convicted for the murder a year earlier of Chea Vichea, the president of Cambodia’s Free Trade Union (FTU). After a campaign by human rights groups, the Supreme Court…

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