Nem Nath was taken in by police in Pursat province on Thursday, his wife Srey Saoroth told RFA’s Khmer Service on Friday. She said the authorities unfairly targeted her husband because he supports the Cambodian National Rescue Party (CNRP), the main opposition of Prime Minister Hun Sen’s Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) until the Supreme Court dissolved the CNRP in 2017.
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Keo Kim Srong, provincial coordinator for local rights group Licadho, confirmed that the two men had been arrested for “encroaching on state forest land.”
He said that while he is still investigating the details of their case, he believes the arrests could be connected to an earlier order from Prime Minister Hun Sen for authorities in the province to “keep their eyes” on activists connected to the CNRP.
“Since Hun Sen made the comment, CNRP activists in Pursat are living in fear, even if they haven’t done anything,” he said.
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