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Timeline: Five Years Since Kem Sokha’s Arrest

Years of political pressure preceded opposition Kem Sokha’s arrest on September 3, 2017, which came amid a year of escalating incidents. Five years since that day, his treason trial drags on with the country’s political opposition cowed by arrests and toothless in the face of a dominant ruling party.

Supporters of on-trial opposition leader Kem Sokha line up outside the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on August 31, 2022. (Hean Rangsey/VOD)

Prosecution Tries to Link Kem Sokha to Veng Sreng Violence

Prosecutors and government lawyers tried to link opposition leader Kem Sokha to garment workers’ demonstrations in the capital in 2013-2014, as his lawyers again argued that the evidence did not support the charge of treason.