Share Rainsy charged for inciting obstruction to lockdown order Wed, 28 April 2021 The Phnom Penh Municipal Court has charged former opposition leader Sam Rainsy with obstructing lockdown measures and inciting social chaos and issued a warrant for his arrest, according to Ministry of Justice spokesman Kim Santepheap. The charges were levied against him after he called on people in Phnom Penh and adjacent Takmao town in Kandal province to ignore all government lockdown orders and leave their homes and go about their daily business as normal. Rainsy, the self-exiled former president of the Supreme Court-dissolved Cambodia National Rescue Party, made the appeal via a video clip posted to his Facebook page on April 24. He dared the government to put an immediate end to the lockdown.