In Absentia 2010: The Right of Appeal & Cambodia's Inmate Transportation Crisis
Released in March 2010
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Over 500 inmates with pending appeals are detained in Cambodia's provinces, some of them hundreds of kilometers away from the nation's only appeals court in Phnom Penh. Due to Cambodia's near total lack of a long-distance inmate transportation network, these inmates are at grave risk of being denied one of the most basic elements of a fair trial: The right to have a conviction and sentence properly reviewed by a higher tribunal.
- Topics
- Prison/Detention
