UPDATED 11:15 p.m. — The first day of Kem Sokha’s treason trial has wrapped up, with lawyers from both sides — Sokha and the government — saying the court mostly dealt with procedural questions for future hearings. The trial is scheduled to continue in the morning on Thursday.
More than 1,000 striking NagaWorld workers were poised to return to their jobs on Saturday after striking a deal to reinstate their union representative and receive higher wages.
A new journalists’ association, the Cambodian Journalists Alliance (CamboJA), vowed to promote press freedom and independent newsgathering, and defend and help professionalize local reporters during a launch event on Friday.
CNRP supporters in Thailand said since Friday that they were remaining at the ready to march across the border into Cambodia if and when party leaders give the go-ahead.
A former commune chief of the outlawed opposition has condemned “treasonous acts” by an exiled CNRP leader in an on-camera “confession” that opposition politicians say was coerced, two days after the ex-chief was charged for “plotting” against the government.
At least 12 more supporters of the outlawed opposition CNRP have been charged since Saturday with “plotting” an attack over their support for exiled party leaders’ promised return to the country next month, with four of them arrested this week.
UPDATED 5:55 p.m. — The Phnom Penh Municipal Court once again deferred its decision against two former Radio Free Asia journalists accused of espionage, with a judge announcing that the case against them would be reinvestigated.
Four more supporters of the banned opposition CNRP were charged for “plotting an attack” over their public backing of exiled CNRP leader Sam Rainsy’s planned return to Cambodia, which the government has branded a coup attempt.
Prime Minister Hun Sen’s eldest son, Hun Manet, has proposed a wager with exiled opposition leader Sam Rainsy after Rainsy called Manet’s degree from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point a “second-class diploma.”
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court has delayed issuing a verdict for two former Radio Free Asia reporters accused of espionage because the presiding judge is busy with a seminar for two days.
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