On March 27, 2015, the international co-investigating judge of the Extraordinary Chambers of the Courts of Cambodia charged Ao An, a seventy-nine-year-old former Khmer Rouge member, with crimes against humanity. According to the press release, the crimes include “murder, extermination, persecution on political and religious grounds, imprisonment, and other inhumane acts (namely inhumane conditions of detention).” According to one report,  Ao An is “the third suspect charged this month in cases that many investigators and advocacy groups fear might go unheard because of the suspects’ advanced age and what are said to be government efforts to block the proceedings.”