The Phnom Penh Municipal Court definitely lessened the charges against two activists at first on trial for impelling to confer a lawful offense, rather sentencing them on Monday to six days in jail for "annoying."
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The activists, Tep Vanny and Bov Sophea, both from Phnom Penh's Boeng Kak neighborhood, were captured amid a tranquil "Dark Monday" challenge a week ago and sent to pretrial detainment on Wednesday.
With a couple of dozen activists challenging outside the courthouse, Presiding Judge Pech Vicheathor read out the decision at around 11 a.m.
"The Phnom Penh Municipal Court, subsequent to listening to the litigants, prosecutors, legal advisors, then checking on the confirmation… charges respondents Tep Vanny and Bov Sophea with offending as per Article 502 of Criminal Code," Judge Vicheathor said.
"As discipline, litigants Tep Vanny and Bov Sophea are sentenced to six days in jail and fined 80,000 riel each," or about $20, he said.
The judge did not disclose the choice to change the charge, and court authorities couldn't promptly be come to.
Ms. Sophea was discharged from jail on Monday night, while Ms. Vanny stays in pre-trial confinement in a different case identified with a dissent in 2013.
Ms. Vanny and Ms. Sophea have been among the pioneers of the Black Monday battle to free four human rights activists and a decision official imprisoned in April on charges broadly saw as being politically persuaded. Requires an appropriate examination concerning the homicide of political investigator Kem Ley a month ago have turned into a focal component of the dissents.
At the show in Boeng Kak on August 15, when Ms. Vanny and Ms. Sophea were captured, those present were reviling models of court authorities who they say have neglected to discover equity for Kem Ley's family.
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Amendment: A prior variant of this story misquoted the sum that Ms. Vanny and Ms. Sophea were fined by the court. It additionally neglected to note that Tep Vanny was likewise in pre-trial detainment in a different case.
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