Two senior leaders of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge regime had their life sentences for crimes against humanity upheld in a Cambodian court on Wednesday, the (CNN) reported.

    Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan were found guilty in August 2014, in front of a specially-convened Cambodian court, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC).

    Both men had appealed their verdict, calling for the trial's judgment to be reversed. Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan were two of the most senior leaders of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge regime, in power from 1975 to 1979. 

    About a quarter of Cambodia's population -- at least 1.7 million people -- are believed to have died during that period, from forced labor, starvation and execution.

Source: QNA