Two Candlelight Party officials have been summoned for court questioning in Pailin and Tbong Khmum over separate charges they argue amount to political intimidation.
The ruling CPP has filed complaints against four Candlelight commune chief candidates in Pailin for using a slogan calling for the removal of “the commune chief serving the party.”
Candlelight commune chief candidates from Koh Kong and Pailin provinces have asked courts to delay proceedings into complaints filed against them, which the party has called intimidation tactics.
The Candlelight Party has accused a Russei Keo commune chief of tearing down a party banner in the capital, with the officials claiming the billboard was erected on state land. Separately, the Candlelight Party’s provincial head in Pailin received a second court summons for incitement — part of two cases being pursued against him since last month.
A former doctor in Pailin is facing two lawsuits after becoming head of the Candlelight Party in the province.
Yuong Soda has been hiding since he was convicted for incitement in 2021 for posting online that a Vietnamese friendship monument in Pailin threatened Cambodia’s sovereignty.
A former Pailin deputy provincial governor says two under-secretaries of state at the Justice Ministry and Council of Ministers defrauded him of $100,000 over a Phnom Penh land deal as the two men were handed preliminary charges and summoned to court.
About 100 poor families living along the Thai border say they have no interest in leaving to make way for a development, demanding $100,000 each in compensation and protesting against court summonses for three representatives.
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