Terror trio lose appeal in Cambodia

One Cambodian and two Thai men have lost their appeal against life prison sentences after the Cambodian Supreme Court upheld a lower court’s decision convicting them of conspiring to commit terrorist acts, including one plot against the British Embassy.

Today’s Supreme Court’s ruling was the last legal avenue for Sman Ismael, a Cambodian Muslim, and Thailand’s Abdul Azi Haji Chiming and Muhammad Yalaludin Mading, whom the Phnom Penh Municipal Court had sentenced to life behind bars in December 2004.