ECCC Trial Chamber sentences Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan to Life Imprisonment for Crimes against Humanity

On 7 August 2014, the Trial Chamber of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) found Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan guilty of crimes against humanity committed between 17 April 1975 and December 1977 and sentenced them to life imprisonment. Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan were found to have committed crimes against humanity of murder, political persecution and other inhumane acts during movements of the population; political persecution and other inhumane acts during movements of the population; and murder and extermination through executions of Khmer Republic officials at Tuol Po Chrey.

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