“Cambodia has jailed a Who’s Who of prominent critics of Hun Sen and his ruling party.”
– Brad Adam, Human Rights Watch Asia Director
The leader of Cambodia’s main opposition party, Kem Sokha, was arrested early Sunday at his home and accused of treason for participating in what the government said was a Washington-backed plot to undermine the country’s leadership. A top official for Human Rights Watch in Asia called the arrest a “disastrous setback” for Cambodia as its […]
Tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of mourners followed Kem Ley’s body from Phnom Penh to his provincial hometown on Sunday as thousands more lined the way for what was the largest funeral procession Cambodia has seen since the royal cavalcade for the late King Norodom Sihanouk in 2013. They had come to pay their […]