A Cambodian opposition leader has been jailed for two years and banned from political office by a Phnom Penh court while a separate criminal defamation case against a journalist for “damaging the honor” of this country’s courts was dropped after a public apology was issued.
Sun Chanthy, 44, president of the opposition Nation Power Party (NPP), was arrested at Phnom Penh airport upon his return from Tokyo on May 9 last year after he criticized the government through an online video produced in Japan and was found guilty of inciting social disorder.
A justice ministry official accused him of blaming the government for biased practices when issuing identity cards for the poor. But the charges were widely seen by Cambodia’s critics as the latest in a litany of attempts to quell any form of opposition.
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