2 Vietnamese Appeal 8 Year Sentence for Beating Sex Worker to Death

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2 Vietnamese Appeal 8 Year Sentence for Beating Sex Worker to Death

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Two Vietnamese nationals were sentenced to eight years in prison for beating a rebellious sex worker to death in 2018
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Cambodia News, (Phnom Penh): On the morning of May 22, 2023, two Vietnamese defendants were tried by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court of Appeal on their appeal in connection with the death of a woman sex worker who died in their massage parlor, which served as a brothel, at 158 Street No. 598, Sangkat Teuk Laak I, Khan Toul Kork, Phnom Penh.
According to the findings of the Phnom Penh Municipal Court, the brothel owner had the woman severely beaten for refusing to provide sex for customers. The victim, a 28-year-old Vietnamese national who lived and worked at the same address, was one of nine woman working there, and she died from the beating she received.

Im Vannak, President of the Trial Chamber, stated that the two defendants were Nguyen Yang Zhou, a 28-year-old Vietnamese man, an employee, and Nguyen Chi Yong, a 38-year-old Vietnamese woman, is the boss and owner of the brothel. The two were arrested on November 17, 2018, at the above Toul Kork address, after taking the body to the pagoda for cremation on November 15, 2018.

The two defendents were found guilty, and were subsequently sentenced to 8 years imprisonment by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on January 30, 2019, to 8 years imprisonment for "intentional violence aggravated by the death of the victim".
Following their apppeal, the Phnom Penh Municipal Court of Appeal has postponed the announcement of the verdict until the morning of June 14, 2023.
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Update: APPEAL DENIED
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Cambodia News, (Phnom Penh): On the morning of June 14, 2023, the Phnom Penh Municipal Court of Appeal upheld the sentences of two Vietnamese defendants who were convicted of killing a Vietnamese sex worker.

On 15 November 2018, a female employee of the massage parlor cum brothel was beaten to death by Nguyen Yang Zhou, a 28-year-old Vietnamese male employee, on the orders of Nguyen Chi Yong, the Vietnamese woman owner. The female employee was severely beaten for refusing to have sex with customers, and she later died. Her body was taken away for cremation.

Both defendants were in court to appeal their original 8 year prison sentence for intentional violence aggravated by the death of the victim, and both were denied a sentence reduction today, 14 June 2023.
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Re: 2 Vietnamese Appeal 8 Year Sentence for Beating Sex Worker to Death

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Not sure how the justice system works here but if convicted of beating someone to death, 8 years seems pretty lenient.

Why would you appeal against that?

Is there a danger your sentence might be increased? Based on the evidence we have here, I'd say double that was fairer.
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Re: 2 Vietnamese Appeal 8 Year Sentence for Beating Sex Worker to Death

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Agreed, an 8 year sentence for that is way too lenient.

Common knowledge that the justice system in Cambodia is out of whack, but I think it’s madness when these kinds of crimes get 8 years when drug sentences can often be 25 years+
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In the appeal they should go "You're right! 8 years was not the right number, how about 25-life"
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the cunts get 8 years for a brutal murder and they think that's hard... throw them in crocodile pit
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is there some where we can read the appeals ?
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