There were four people including a human rights worker who accepted a very long time in prison convicted on Monday in Takeo province, after they learned that they had fault of delivering leaflets allegedly profaning the former king and government.

The staff member of Licadho, Leang Sokchoeun, 28-year-old, was very frightened and then he was unconscious after hearing that he had fault and had to be in prison for two years. He was also fetched to the provincial hospital in an ambulance car.

There were two other people, Thack Vannak, a 34 Vietnamese translator, and Thach Le, 61, a motorcycle taxi driver, the two of them also had to be for two years in prison. And the fourth person, Thach Kong Phuong, a monk, 34, who remains at large, was also convicted for three years in prison.

The four of them were alleged of delivering a lot of bad news in Takeo province and also criticized about the January holiday celebrating the dismissal of the Khmer Rough regime from Phnom Penh by Vietnamese farces. The holiday in seven of January is politically problem to make a controversy between the groups of politicians. And with some people who are glad with it as a day of liberation that they can have freedom to do a lot of things as they wanted and others as a herald of a decade of good position in their future.

The court said the police had offered the proof and the testimony of the witness placing the people at the site of a bad news delivery.

But Am Sam Ath, a senior detective of Licadho, said that the decision did not have justice and the proof was not clear and the conviction was just the pressure from the politicians or the officials of the government.