“Sam Rainsy and Kem Sokha are not the same person,” Sokha’s Facebook post said, asking that Rainsy and his colleagues stop using him to push their campaigns.
Funcinpec leader and former prime minister Prince Norodom Ranariddh died Sunday morning, according to the Funcinpec Party, capping off a turbulent political career that coincided with the country’s emergence as a fledgling democracy in the early 1990s.
Military police say they caught a man who confessed to killing a CNRP youth activist outside Chroy Changva’s Wat Chas over the weekend, but questions remain over the accused’s motive.
Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Tuesday he would deal with “extremists” – a thinly-veiled reference to the CNRP – before considering handing over power to the “younger generation.”
A former CNRP commune chief was extradited from Thailand and sent to pre-trial detention over an incitement charge, despite having being recognized as a refugee.
UPDATED 2:45 p.m. — An opposition activist was killed around 1 a.m. Sunday in Phnom Penh, with a witness saying she saw him running from near Wat Chas as assailants slashed his body with a sword.
Fourteen opposition activists and members, many of them arrested early last year over Covid-19 posts and private conversations, were denied bail during a hearing this morning.
Residents react to the fourth anniversary of the dissolution of the country’s main opposition party, the CNRP.
UPDATED: Citing around $2 million in unpaid penalties, the courts announced that the outlawed CNRP’s former headquarters would be placed on sale. “The CNRP HQ is the symbol of democracy for the majority of the people of Cambodia,” Mu Sochua responded.
Over the past week, increasing pressure on Cambodia coincided with the suddenly approved release of at least a dozen political prisoners.
Two CNRP mass trials involving dozens of defendants are set to be heard at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court this week after being delayed by the “February 20” Covid-19 outbreak earlier this year.
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