The last surviving Khmer Rouge leader has been transferred to a Cambodian state prison to serve two life sentences after losing his appeal against a genocide conviction, prosecutors said Wednesday (Feb 1).
In its final verdict last year, the kingdom’s UN-backed court upheld the 2018 genocide conviction and life sentence imposed on Khieu Samphan.
The 91-year-old was head of state for the murderous communist regime that wiped out a quarter of the Cambodian population in less than four years in the 1970s.
