On November 23, 2016, the Supreme Court Chamber of the Extraordinary Chambers of the Courts of Cambodia upheld a ruling of life in prison for two top Khmer Rouge leaders that was on appeal. According to the press release, the Court “upheld Nuon Chea’s and Khieu Samphan’ s convictions for crimes against humanity of murder, persecution on political grounds and other inhumane acts in relation to the evacuation of Phnom Penh immediately after the fall of the city on 17 April 1975.” The Court also “reversed the convictions entered by the Trial Chamber for the crime against humanity of extermination in relation to the evacuation of Phnom Penh and the second phase of population transfers.”