The Phnom Penh Municipal Court has upheld an 18-month jail term, which was initially handed down in absentia for a two-year-old social media post on human trafficking, against prominent trade union leader Morm Rithy, who has been returned to prison.
His case has been highlighted by civil society groups, including the UN Human Rights Office, as an example of the harshness of the Cambodian judiciary, which ranked 141 out of 142 countries in the 2023 Rule of Law Index by the World Justice Project.
Morm Rithy, vice-president of the Cambodian Labor Confederation (CLC), was detained and arrested on the night of May 7 outside the CLC offices, following his conviction that was registered earlier the same day.
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