Man Sees Freedom After Being Charged for Unintended Crime
March 2014 Megan Williams IBJ lawyers came to the aid of a man named Mr. Dara En from Kampong Thom Province in Cambodia by reducing his sentence for a crime he was unaware of...
Early Access to Council Helps Free Young Woman in Phnom Penh
Jake Mooney July 2014 Ms. Thyda is 24- year-old woman living in a small house with her family on the side of an abandoned railway in Phnom Penh. Her house is part of a...
Lawyer’s Discovery of Truth Leads to Acquittal
June 2014 Rosemary Hambright Scorned for being poor, a young man in Cambodia found himself at the mercy of a dysfunctional judicial system. Fortunately, IBJ was able to step in and offer legal...
Father of 5 Released by IBJ Lawyer
11 June 2014 Jeanne Salomé Mr. Pagna(1) lives in a small village, 30 minutes away from Banteay Meanchey city in the north-west corner of Cambodia. His house made of metal sheets stands close to rice...
Intervention of IBJ Lawyer Results in Shortened Sentence for Poor Man
10 June 2014 Jeanne Salomé Twenty-four year old Virak has been in prison since November 2013. When we met him in early June 2014, he still had to serve one more week of his...
IBJ Lawyer Helps Free Wrongly Accused in Stung Treng
18 March 2014 J. Salomé After a two hour drive from Ratanakiri we arrive in Stung Treng, a small provincial city in the North East of Cambodia close to the Lao border. We go...
Interfaith Peace Vigil – Insights from Cambodia
Ly Eng & Jake Mooney IBJ’s Ending Torture Event took place on 20, June, 2014 at the Toul Tom Poung Pagoda. The event focused on the importance of uniting people from all religious backgrounds...
Twenty Kids in a Four by Four Meter Cell: How IBJ Freed One Teenager
Erika Larsen June 2014 I have only been interning in IBJ Cambodia’s Battambang office for a few weeks, but I have already seen just how important the work they do is to those accused...
Wrongly Accused Civilian Given Second Chance by IBJ Lawyer
16 March 2014 J. Salomé On 21 July 2011, Samnang(1) was getting ready in his bathroom when he heard his phone ringing in the living room. He heard his wife pick up, get angry, and...
IBJ Lawyer Obtains Acquittal and Reduced Sentence for Clients in Cambodia
The following case occurred following a violent eruption after a restaurant owner made a harmless remark to a group of customers. The owner’s brother, Pech, and sister-in-law, Vanny, were arrested; the former charged with...