The former "first lady" of Cambodia's genocidal Khmer Rouge regime died onSaturday, 22 August, without her victims being able to see her face trial. Ieng Thirith, 83, a French-educated revolutionary, ...

Ieng Thirith, Social Affairs Minister under the Khmer Rouge regime, sits in the dock during her pretrial chamber public hearing at Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, on the outskirts of ...

Ieng Thirith, 80, who experts say has Alzheimer's disease, was driven in a convoy on Sunday with police and officials from the purpose-built detention facility at the Phnom Penh court where she has ...

The move came after experts told the United Nations-backed tribunal that the mental state of former social affairs minister Ieng Thirith, 80, had worsened since appeal judges in December requested ...

Ieng Thirith, the regime's former social affairs minister, is one of five top cadres in the sights of the UN war crimes tribunal over atrocities committed during the Khmer Rouge's rule. The former ...

The only female Khmer Rouge leader charged with genocide at Cambodia's UN-backed war crimes court is unfit to stand trial and should be freed from detention, judges have ruled in a shock decision. The ...

The former "First Lady" of Cambodia's murderous Khmer Rouge regime was freed on Sunday after the country's war crimes tribunal ruled she was unfit to stand trial. Ieng Thirith, 80, who experts say has ...

Phnom Penh: The former "First Lady" of Cambodia's murderous Khmer Rouge regime has been hospitalised in neighbouring Thailand and is relying on a feeding tube and oxygen to survive, her son said ...