Terror trio lose appeal in Cambodia
One Cambodian and two Thai men have lost their appeal against life prison sentences after the Cambodian Supreme Court upheld a lower court’s decision convicting them of conspiring to commit terrorist acts, including one plot against the British Embassy.
Today’s Supreme Court’s ruling was the last legal avenue for Sman Ismael, a Cambodian Muslim, and Thailand’s Abdul Azi Haji Chiming and Muhammad Yalaludin Mading, whom the Phnom Penh Municipal Court had sentenced to life behind bars in December 2004.
The lower court convicted them of helping Hambali, one of Asia’s top terrorist leaders, plan attacks on the US and British embassies in Cambodia.
