Longstanding Cambodian opposition figure Sam Rainsy is in court in France, facing defamation cases brought against him by top officials in his home country.
The 73-year-old was targeted with two separate complaints by Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen and his son-in-law and deputy national police chief, Dy Vichea, over Facebook posts from 2019.
Rainsy claimed that Hun Sen was behind the 2008 death in a helicopter crash of national police chief Hok Lundy, the father of Dy Vichea’s father.
