Kem Sokha charged with planning, implementing a secret plan in collusion with foreigners to overthrow the Cambodian royal gov't.
A Cambodian court convened today to begin the trial of opposition party leader Kem Sokha on charges of treason in a case that has drawn condemnation from rights groups as a move by longtime leader Hun Sen to crush political rivals.
Sokha rejected the video clip as evidence, saying that his version of the video had him saying he wouldn’t stage a revolution. It could take up to three months to deliver a verdict, defence lawyers said yesterday, meaning the case could still be in progress by the time the EU makes a decision next month on whether to cut Cambodia’s preferential trade status over its human rights record.
Kem Sokha’s daughter Monovithya Kem called the trial against her father a “farce”, and rights groups urged the case to be dismissed.
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