During the protest, residents held a religious ceremony which included the freeing of sparrows, cursed at judiciary officials working in the ministry and set fire to paper-made mockups of the Ministry of Justice.
They also presented a petition to Justice Minister, Ang Vong Vathana, demanding her release from Prey Sar prison where she has been kept for eight months.
Yorm Bopha, who was named a prisoner of conscious by Amnesty International, was sentenced in December of last year by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court to three years in prison and was ordered to pay a compensation of 30 million Riels to the two people she victimized.
She was arrested on September for intentional-violence charges, accusing her of ordering an axe attack on two motorcycle taxi drivers in Boeung Kok's village 22 on August 7.
