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Cambodia delays release of Khmer Rouge ‘First Lady’

AFP

Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge court Friday delayed freeing the regime’s former “First Lady”, who has dementia, after prosecutors requested tighter conditions for the genocide suspect’s release. The UN-backed tribunal ruled on Thursday that the 80-year-old Ieng Thirith, who experts say suffers from Alzheimer…