Duong Ngeap, who railed against court corruption last week while facing a fraud charge, adultery conviction and $5-million bail order, was arrested this morning.
A three-star police general and tycoon has unfurled a slew of corruption accusations against the country’s courts, a business associate and his family, saying he has reached out to senior government officials for help to no avail.
Phnom Penh police on Sunday disseminated four more arrest warrants against NagaWorld protesters for obstructing official measures, explaining that they were for Covid-19 Law violations.
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court sentenced Voeun Veasna, a former monk who was involved in forestry activism, to two years in prison for incitement over criticisms he posted on Facebook.
Defense lawyers in the trial of the opposition leader presented videos in court Wednesday as evidence he had only pushed for electoral change.
Members of the public who have experienced corruption at the hands of officials at the Anti-Corruption Unit are encouraged to provide further information to the unit after it sent one of its staff members to court.
Transcripts of phone calls between a CNRP activist and his wife and among opposition supporters, in which they spoke of Covid-19 concerns including a potential government cover-up, featured in the penultimate hearing of a mass trial case at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court.
CNRP leader Kem Sokha’s defense team argued in court on Tuesday that the prosecution’s repeated use of video evidence did not prove the charge of treason and was only prolonging the trial.
As a treason trial against former opposition leader Kem Sokha resumed on Wednesday after a delay of nearly two years, lawyers attacked each other over the postponement, while the defendant said he had believed a reconciliation was in the cards.
A recording between reformed ruling party celebrity Thy Sovantha and former CNRP South Korea leader Yin Sinorn is old and not related to the court’s decision to drop Sinorn’s charges, he said.
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