At least 12 activists and CNRP supporters have been arrested this week, according to National Police, in at least one case for incitement for “supporting the betrayal” of the outlawed opposition party’s continued activities.
Dozens of supporters gathered at former opposition leader Kem Sokha’s Phnom Penh house over the weekend as he continues to toe the line around his ban on political activities.
A general contractor in Texas who has never set foot in Cambodia is among more than a dozen foreign citizens called up to a mass trial of the banned main opposition party. Their experiences suggest Thai authorities supplied a Cambodian court with their names.
Ruling party spokesmen say succession by CPP progeny is underway, based on merit, with the announcement of promotions for three sons of late deputy prime minister Sok An.
A private phone conversation in which two former opposition officials in Battambang province allegedly spoke of Prime Minister Hun Sen’s death was the focus of an incitement trial at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Monday.
A soldier who was removed from Prime Minister Hun Sen’s bodyguard unit over his involvement in a land dispute has this month been made an adviser to Interior Minister Sar Kheng, according to government letters and court documents.
A former opposition commune councilor who now works as a tuk-tuk driver says he was assaulted by four men on Saturday, while the son of a jailed ex-CNRP official was also beaten on the same day.
A minor party politician has been tossed from a government-mandated watchdog body, the Supreme Consultative Council, without any reason given after investigating an ongoing land dispute in Banteay Meanchey province.
As a worldwide rollout of Covid-19 vaccines nears, Prime Minister Hun Sen said late Monday that he would ask development partners to help Cambodia obtain doses cheaply.
Sitanan Satsaksit’s lawyer translated her ceremonial prayer: that she would prove to the Cambodian court that her abducted Thai activist brother lived in the Phnom Penh condominium building a few hundred meters behind her.
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