Two Candlelight Party officials have been summoned for court questioning in Pailin and Tbong Khmum over separate charges they argue amount to political intimidation.
Khmer Thavrak activists on Friday questioned their incitement convictions for attending protests in August 2020, saying not all were present over the four days in question — and one had not joined at all.
The Appeal Court retried a case involving a Cambodian translator convicted of incitement for assisting on a 2018 Russia Today documentary on sex trafficking in the country. A Cambodian dissident who has political asylum in Denmark was sentenced in absentia to eight years and 18 months for plotting and incitement, respectively.
The Supreme Court has upheld an incitement conviction against an opposition activist for a social media post in 2020. The details of the post were not disclosed in the Supreme Court.
An opposition activist appealed his incitement conviction for a social media post at the Supreme Court on Wednesday. The case relates to a Facebook post from 2020, but details were not discussed in court on Wednesday.
Defendants in an opposition mass trial argued at their final hearing that they were victims of a political war between Prime Minister Hun Sen and exiled politician Sam Rainsy, and asked for justice.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld guilty verdicts against seven people convicted for attempting to join a 2020 Paris Peace Agreements Day protest outside the Chinese Embassy in Phnom Penh.
One of two CNRP mass trials will have a verdict on March 17, with the prosecution alleging senior opposition leaders and members were directly responsible for partial revocations of international trade privileges.
Five representatives of a community embroiled in a Banteay Meanchey land dispute have been charged and placed in pre-trial detention for incitement charges, according to a court official and a rights group.
NagaWorld protesters are not permitted to rally in public spaces, City Hall said on Tuesday, urging them to gather at a park in the city’s outskirts when workers clear Covid-19 testing and quarantine requirements.
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