The teenager, whose family says he has autism, was arrested June 24 over online messages that allegedly insulted public officials. His father, Kak Komphea, has been repeatedly jailed for participating in opposition politics.
Several family members of jailed opposition politicians staged a small rally outside the U.S. Embassy on Friday, aiming to bring attention to the country’s political prisoners.
A Phnom Penh court has convicted and sentenced seven former opposition activists in absentia for Facebook posts accusing Prime Minister Hun Sen of hiding Covid-19 deaths in 2020 and other posts about his time as a former Khmer Rouge district commander.
While some CNRP-linked minor parties are eyeing consolidation to challenge the ruling party in the upcoming elections, one such party is choosing to try its own luck rather than joining the path of others.
As Interior Minister Sar Kheng embarks on a “private” trip to France, Cambodia’s outlawed opposition is raising hopes of a meeting with the minister whom it routinely raises as a supposedly democracy-friendly foil to Prime Minister Hun Sen.
Opposition activists who fled to Thailand after the CNRP was dissolved fear they could be targeted, followed and attacked for their politics and associations.
A new opposition party by ex-CNRP officials has taken another step toward becoming formally registered with the Interior Ministry after submitting 4,000 supporters’ thumbprints, as it eyes alliances with other minor parties ahead of next year’s commune elections.
With just over a year left on a political ban for opposition officials, Prime Minister Hun Sen said he would hand out “rehabilitation” pardons only if it “makes me pleased,” while saying he would stay in power until he “no longer wants to do it anymore.”
The Cambodia Democracy Act of 2021 was introduced this week and considered by the committee on Wednesday.
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court sentenced a former opposition party activist to a year and half in prison for comments posted in a video clip calling the government soft against the country’s Vietnamese minority, which were made during a rally for jailed unionist Rong Chhun.
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