Former Khmer Rouge leader 'unfit for trial'

One of the leaders of the former Khmer Rouge regime will be set free after a court in Cambodia ruled today that she was medically unfit to stand trial for genocide, a decision survivors called shocking and unjust.

Cambodia's UN-backed tribunal issued a statement saying that 80-year-old Ieng Thirith suffers from a progressive, degenerative illness that is likely to be Alzheimer's disease and which diminishes her mental capacity.