February 10, 2010
IPU “DEEPLY CONCERNED” BY LIFTING OF PARLIAMENTARY IMMUNITY OF CAMBODIAN
OPPOSITION MPs
In a late January decision of its Committee on the Human Rights of
Parliamentarians, the Geneva-based Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) said it “is
deeply concerned at the lifting of Mr. Sam Rainsy’s parliamentary immunity for
the same reasons as the ones it has expressed in the cases of opposition
parliamentarians Ho Vann and Mu Sochua, namely that without proper examination
of the request for the lifting of immunity, without an open and public
parliamentary debate, during which the parliamentarians concerned can present
their arguments, without a secret vote, parliamentary immunity is reduced to a
mere formality and is thus meaningless.”
The IPU also “expresses further concern at the charges laid against Mr. Sam
Rainsy which, in the light of the information before it, appear highly
questionable.”
Full text of the IPU decision at http://tinyurl.com/yhcb9kj
SRP Members of Parliament
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