Cambodia: Drop Charges Against Opposition Leader

Expand Cambodia National Rescue Party's President Kem Sokha greets media at his house in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on Monday, Nov. 11, 2019. © 2019 AP Photo/Heng Sinith (Bangkok) – Cambodian authorities should immediately and unconditionally drop bogus treason charges against the political opposition leader Kem Sokha, Human Rights Watch said today. On December 2, 2019, a Phnom Penh court sent his case, pending since September 2017, to trial which will start on January 15, 2020. “The case against Kem Sokha has always been a dubious excuse to attack the political opposition,” said Phil Robertson,…

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