PHNOM PENH - Prominent Cambodian opposition figure Kem Sokha was on Friday (March 3) sentenced to 27 years of house arrest after being found guilty of treason, in a case condemned by the United States as politically motivated. Judge Koy Sao also told the court in the capital, Phnom Penh, that Kem Sokha would be barred from running for political...
Former Cambodia National Rescue Party leader Kem Sokha leaves his house for the Phnom Penh Municipal Court for the hearing of the verdict in his treason case where he was was sentenced to 27 years in detention under house arrest after being found guilty, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on March 3, 2023.
Kem Sokha, who headed the now-disbanded Cambodia National Rescue Party , had denied the charges and Washington dismissed the allegations as "fabricated conspiracy theories"."He's in house arrest, all of his political and citizens' rights are completely stripped... This is not justice," said Ang Udom, adding that only politicians could resolve the case.W. Patrick Murphy, the US ambassador to Cambodia, said the case was a miscarriage of justice.
CNRP has since been decimated, with many of its members arrested or fleeing into exile in what activists say is a sweeping crackdown designed to thwart challenges to the CPP's power monopoly.
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