The court said Kem Sokha is barred from all political activity, including voting, and not allowed to meet with anyone, Cambodian or foreign, except for family members. “The multi-year process to silence Kem Sokha, based on a fabricated conspiracy, is a miscarriage of justice,” said the U.S. statement, emailed to journalists. The Cambodia National Rescue Party had been the only credible opponent of the Prime Minister, whose Cambodian People’s Party swept all the seats in the National Assembly its rival was abolished. As in Kem Sokha’s case, the prosecution was widely seen as politically motivated. Kem Sokha was released from prison on bail in September 2018, more than a year after he was arrested, and put under house arrest.

Source: The Star March 03, 2023 13:20 UTC