Australian named new international lawyer at the ECCC
Publication date 08 September 2019 | 23:42 | ICT

Australian national Megan Hirst has been selected as the new international civil party lead co-lawyer at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), commonly known as the Khmer Rouge tribunal.

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    Publication date 25 October 2018 | 08:23 | ICT

    Duch, the former director of the Khmer Rouge’s S-21 interrogation centre in Phnom Penh’s Tuol Sleng, has been taken to a hospital in the capital with respiratory problems, reports said on Wednesday.

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    Publication date 26 January 2018 | 10:31 | ICT

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