The Foreign Affairs Ministry has revoked the Cambodian passports of 12 senior opposition leaders, with a ministry spokesman saying the officials were fleeing from the law.
In Bangkok’s Santiphap Park, CNRP members who fled Cambodia say they pass time exercising and catching up with friends, and are mixed about whether they would leave the relative safety of Thailand and re-enter Cambodia on Saturday.
UPDATED 8:02 p.m. — CNRP vice-president Mu Sochua confirmed on Thursday evening that she has been released from detention at Kuala Lumpur International Airport.
CNRP acting president Sam Rainsy left Paris’s Charles De Gaulle Airport without boarding a flight to Thailand on Thursday, claiming the airline had denied him entry.
CNRP vice president Mu Sochua has been detained at Kuala Lumpur International Airport after arriving there on Wednesday night from Jakarta, rights groups said.
Cambodia’s ambassador to Indonesia on Wednesday interrupted a Jakarta press conference held by opposition vice-president Mu Sochua, who said the ambassador called her a “fugitive” and warned that Cambodian authorities would arrest her.
Nearly 20,000 members of the armed and police forces will be deployed during upcoming public holidays from Saturday when leaders of the outlawed opposition party have vowed to return to the country.
The National Assembly on Monday ratified two treaties demarcating the border between Cambodia and Vietnam.
Nearly 50 airlines have been warned that they could face criminal prosecution if they carry Sam Rainsy and other senior opposition officials into Cambodia, the Civil Aviation Secretariat has said, while Rainsy on Monday again vowed to return to the country this weekend.
As opposition leader Sam Rainsy vowed to put his freedom and life on the line in his attempt to return to Cambodia on November 9,
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