Cambodian soldiers jailed for assaulting opposition MPs

[WorldNews]

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Three soldiers from Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen's elite bodyguard unit were sentenced to one year in prison Friday for beating up two opposition lawmakers, a case a human rights group has called a "blatant cover-up". The trio of soldiers turned themselves in days after the incident and admitted to attacking the two opposition MPs, Kong Sakphea and Nhoy Chamreoun, after a parliament session in October. "The court decides... to sentence (the three defendants) to four years in prison each, but they must serve only one year in jail while the remaining sentence is suspended," judge Heng Sokna said at Phnom Penh Municipal Court.

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