Prime Minister Hun Sen said Tuesday the people want the CPP to continue to lead the country. Interior Minister Sar Kheng warned the national bank can be blacklisted if authorities didn’t crackdown on money laundering and drug financing.
Opposition leader Kem Sokha’s treason trial is getting closer to a conclusion, the presiding judge said on Wednesday a week after Sokha distanced himself from his firebrand CNRP co-founder Sam Rainsy.
Nhim Sarom was released Wednesday, a day after he was arrested for an alleged robbery case for which he had been convicted in 2014.
A former CNRP youth leader confirmed that he and eight other accused in the opposition mass trial that concluded on Tuesday already had their charges dropped earlier this year.
Scuffles have broken out on the road outside a CNRP mass-trial verdict hearing at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court as officers dragged away defendant Seng Chan Theary, a Cambodian-American opposition activist.
On-trial opposition leader Kem Sokha on Wednesday morning questioned his treason trial’s turn to associating him with his CNRP co-founder Sam Rainsy.
A chorus of political parties are decrying the conduct of the June 5 commune election, with the Candlelight Party calling for reforms to the NEC to ensure a smoother process.
Kem Sokha’s legal team continued to demand that the prosecution specify which countries he had conspired with to overthrow the government, adding there was no evidence so far to support charges against the opposition leader.
Standing in the municipal court dock on Wednesday, Kem Sokha said he would never run away from the people no matter what difficulties he faced — an apparent dig at his CNRP co-founder Sam Rainsy, who lives in exile in France.
The Interior Ministry said on Wednesday that the Candlelight Party’s appointment of vice president Son Chhay earlier this year failed to follow the party’s own procedures.
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