The Phnom Penh Post

The only female defendant currently detained at the ECCC will go before the Pre-Trial Chamber May 21. During the Khmer Rouge years, Ieng Thirith was Minister of Social Affairs and Head of Democratic Kampuchea's Red Cross Society. Her older sister, Khieu Ponnary, married Pol Pot. The Pre-Trial Chamber recently approved conjugal visits between Thirith and her husband Ieng Sary, who is also in detention at the ECCC.

Thirith will be appealing her provisional detention.