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Prominent Cambodian opposition figure Kem Sokha was on Friday sentenced to 27 years in detention under house arrest after being found guilty of treason, in a case condemned by the United States as politically motivated.
Top Cambodian opposition leader Kem Sokha was Friday sentenced to 27 years in jail for treason in a case denounced as a "miscarriage of justice".
Top Cambodian opposition leader Kem Sokha has been sentenced to 27 years in prison for treason. Sokha was sentenced on Friday in a case denounced as a “miscarriage of Justice”, RFI reports. He was arrested in 2017 in a midnight swoop involving hundreds of security forces after he was accused of hatching a “secret plan” in collusion with foreign entities to topple the government of longtime Prime Minister Hun Sen.
By Prak Chan Thul
Kem Sokha, co-founder of the defunct Cambodia National Rescue Party, was accused of conspiring to overthrow the government and sentenced to 27 years’ house arrest.