Posted: August 25th, 2010, 10:56am MSD
[JURIST] Lawyers for former Khmer Rouge [BBC backgrounder] official Kaing Guek Eav [case materials; JURIST news archive] on Tuesday filed a notice of an appeal [text, PDF] of his conviction by the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) [official website]. Last month, the trial chamber of the ECCC convicted Kaing [JURIST report], also known as "Duch," of crimes against humanity and of violating the 1949 Geneva Conventions, sentencing him to 35 years in prison. Kaing's sentence was reduced to 19 years after the court considered time served as well as other factors. The defense's appeal calls for Kaing's...