PHNOM PENH, Nov 1 — A Cambodian court sentenced an autistic teenager to eight months in prison today, with part of the term suspended, for sending Telegram messages that were deemed insulting to the government, his mother said. The son of an opposition figure, 16-year-old Kak Sovann Chhay...
PHNOM PENH, Nov 1 — A Cambodian court sentenced an autistic teenager to eight months in prison today, with part of the term suspended, for sending Telegram messages that were deemed insulting to the government, his mother said.
Phnom Penh Municipal Court today sentenced him to eight months in prison, under incitement charges and for insulting public officials. The teenager’s arrest and detention drew outcry from the UN’s special rapporteur on human rights in Cambodia, Vitit Muntarbhorn. The boy’s father, Kak Komphea, is a former member of the now-dissolved opposition Cambodian National Rescue Party and has been in jail since June last year.