
One Sent to Prison for Tbong Khmum Farmer Shooting After $12,000 Compensation
The family of a farmer shot dead by an illegal fishing patrol say they have accepted compensation, but are unhappy as five of six suspects in the case were released.
The family of a farmer shot dead by an illegal fishing patrol say they have accepted compensation, but are unhappy as five of six suspects in the case were released.
Exiled opposition leader Sam Rainsy was convicted and sentenced to life in prison for a meeting he had with an indigenous minority leader in 2013 pledging to uphold the rights of Cambodia’s indigenous people.
Two owners of a commuter boat and its 15-year-old driver have been arrested following the deaths of 11 schoolchildren last week.
Phnom Penh court prosecutors continued to question defendants in a fifth mass trial related to former CNRP vice president Mu Sochua’s attempt to return in 2021.
The Supreme Court has asked a lower court to retry an incitement conviction against the teenage son of a jailed opposition activist and to keep in mind his status as a minor.
Two minor parties will come together to form a new political “middle,” they announced on Monday, a surprise alliance between royalist general Nhek Bun Chhay and Yem Ponhearith, ally of on-trial opposition leader Kem Sokha.
Typhoon Noru, which is expected to make landfall tomorrow in central Vietnam, will cause flash flooding in northern Cambodia, the weather ministry warned, as other parts of the country are still grappling with incessant rains.
A former CNRP commune chief rejected evidence brought by the court as part of the latest opposition mass trial, saying the voice on a recorded phone conversation belonged to another person.
The trial against opposition leader Kem Sokha tried to link him to an alleged color revolution attempt in 2013 when party colleagues and supporters held lotuses at public demonstrations, and questioned him over the Taiwanese ruling party’s visit to his CNRP that year.
Thirteen former CNRP activists had their appeal against a lower court conviction linked to the formation of an opposition movement overseas turned down by the Appeal Court on Tuesday.
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