Visitors in the gallery view the courtroom during Khieu Samphan’s, the former head of state for the Khmer Rouge, hearing takes place at the U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. (AP)
File Photo: Former Khmer Rouge head of state Khieu Samphan is seen inside the courtroom of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) as he awaits a verdict in this 2018 photo. ECCC/via REUTERS
The sun rises on the court house where the hearings against Khieu Samphan, former Khmer Rouge head of state, are taking place in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)
Bou Meng, second from left, former S-21 prison survivor, is helped by a court spokesman into the courtroom before the hearings against Khieu Samphan, former Khmer Rouge head of state, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)
The tribunal will issue its ruling on an appeal by Khieu Samphan, the last surviving leader of the Khmer Rouge government that ruled Cambodia from 1975-79. He was convicted in 2018 of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes and sentenced to life in prison. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)
