Yuong Soda has been hiding since he was convicted for incitement in 2021 for posting online that a Vietnamese friendship monument in Pailin threatened Cambodia’s sovereignty.
The party was scheduled to have its congress in October, then shifted to January but postponed yet again due to difficulty booking a venue.
According to a letter circulating on social media, Ung Sovanna, former deputy head of the CNRP’s womens’ movement, has requested political amnesty. Her husband, former CNRP lawmaker Men Sothavarin, said the move took him by surprise.
Under a white and yellow tent in Phnom Penh’s Chbar Ampov district, female dancers clad in traditional attire danced as part of a blessing ceremony at the party congress of the beleaguered royalist Funcinpec party.
Hun Sen mistakenly claimed while speaking about peace-building in Myanmar that a jailed Australian economist there had been released. He later acknowledged the error, saying “this confusion came from misinformation I received.”
A prisons deputy director who was accused of taking $71,000 in bribes from a family to find seven police jobs was transferred within the Interior Ministry and made an adviser, as legal proceedings continue.
A video from 2018 about the formal announcement of an opposition movement was presented Thursday as evidence of plotting and incitement.
As a treason trial against former opposition leader Kem Sokha resumed on Wednesday after a delay of nearly two years, lawyers attacked each other over the postponement, while the defendant said he had believed a reconciliation was in the cards.
Less than five months to commune elections, the ruling CPP and minor opposition parties are pointing to agriculture as key planks of their agendas, many echoing a desire to increase investment in farms and “find markets” for exports.
A woman sentenced for 16 years for trafficking women to work in Malaysia appealed her sentence on Tuesday, while a Takeo prosecutor urged the Appeal Court to issue heavier sentences for two men convicted of raping their under nieces.
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