Document #1087261

OHCHR – UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (Author)

United Nations Expert concerned at Restrictions on Freedom of Lawyers to represent their Clients in Cambodia

http://www.unog.ch/unog/website/news_media.nsf/(httpNewsByYear_en)/5BE7FF25A0016CEEC12575E600308D2A?OpenDocument

ecoi.net description:
Lawyer of opposition member charged with criminal defamation and threatened with expulsion from Cambodian Bar Association; other lawyers who called for investigation into corruption claims against extraordinary chambers were threatened with legal actions
Country:
Cambodia
Source:
OHCHR – UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (Author)
Published:
1 July 2009
Original link:
http://www.unog.ch/unog/website/news_media.nsf/(httpNewsByYear_en)/5BE7FF25A0016CEEC12575E600308D2A?OpenDocument
Document type:
Appeal or News Release
Language:
English
Document ID:
1087261 (former ID 122307)

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