On 27 March 2013, land rights activist - Yorm Bopha, had her plea for bail rejected by the Cambodian Supreme Court. Ms Bopha championed the right to housing for residents forcibly evicted from the capital Phnom Penh's former Boeung Kak Lake neighborhood, had cited health and family reasons to be out of jail pending her appeal on a conviction but presiding judge Khim Ponn The said there was no basis for her application. Local rights groups Licadho, Sahmakum Teang Tnaut, Equitable Cambodia, and the Community Legal Education Centre in a joint statement called on the judiciary to set a date for Yorm Bopha's appeal against the conviction and for "an end to political interference in this case, and more generally the court system." has now spent 204 days in jail since her initial detention in early September 2012.