Prime Minister Hun Sen has warned two political analysts over criticizing the government’s foreign policy, one by name and the other by saying there was already a warrant out for his arrest.
In a speech inaugurating a new Phnom Penh stadium on Sunday, which came during a visit by Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, Hun Sen reiterated the bonds of “steel” between China and Cambodia.
A Kampong Cham monk chief was reinstated after being arrested and defrocked last week for allegedly violating Covid-19 measures.
More than 35,000 people were stopped for violations of curfews and other Covid-19 measures during three weeks of restrictions that ended last week, the Justice Ministry said.
Khmer Rouge head of state Khieu Samphan took the stand for the last time this week to say he was worried for the future of the country during an appeal against his conviction for crimes against humanity.
Touch Vibol, executive director of the Student Movement for Democracy (SMD), said in a statement this week that critics had been twisting the group’s words using abusive language, curses and insults.
Former CNRP lawyer and board member Choung Choungy has applied for political rehabilitation — after being banned by the Supreme Court in 2017 — but an Interior Ministry spokesperson said his reentry into politics could be hampered by an unresolved court case.
Cases have now been announced in at least nine of the country’s 28 overcrowded prisons, as the Justice Ministry discusses measures to reduce inmate numbers by releasing those close to the end of their sentences. Ministry spokesperson Kim Santepheap said on Monday that Justice Minister Keut Rith was considering the decision.
Nine officers stormed the house of a jailed opposition politician on Thursday night, arresting his 16-year-old autistic son who was previously assaulted in public with a brick in April, according to the politician’s wife.
An Interior Ministry investigation refuted a string of Battambang police explanations of an alleged torture death — first that the detainee was beaten by villagers, then that he had a traffic accident, and third that he died from a drug overdose.
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