Former opposition leader Sam Rainsy walks to the Phnom Penh Municipal Court in this file picture from 2014. - PPP
PHNOM PENH (The Phnom Penh Post/The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Wednesday (Dec 30) announced the verdicts in two high profile cases involving Sam Rainsy and former officials of the Supreme Court-dissolved Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP).
Rainsy was found guilty of incitement to commit a felony and incitement of social chaos. He was sentenced to four years in prison and a fine of eight million riel (US$2,000).
The court also ordered Rainsy to pay two billion riel in compensatory damages to the government for inciting social unrest.