Cambodia News: Kem Sokha

The United States expressed concern on Wednesday over the detention of political activists in Cambodia and called on the government to lift restrictions on the ...

A court in Cambodia has issued a new warrant for the arrest of acting president of the banned opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) Sam Rainsy ...

Supporters of Kem Sokha slam Rainsy over defamatory comments against the King.

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodian authorities arrested six political activists over the weekend for alleged plots to rally in support of former opposition ...

Extremist figures have long dotted the landscape of Cambodian politics. One of them in contemporary Cambodia is Sam Rainsy, a master illusionist who thrives ...

A court in Cambodia on Friday charged acting president of the banned opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) Sam Rainsy with “insulting the King ...

A lawyer for arrested Cambodian opposition chief Kem Sokha on Wednesday rejected government claims this week that his transfer by authorities from prison to ...

Rhona Smith, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia mentioned the release of Kem Sokha, the president of the Supreme ...

In about nine weeks, Cambodia opposition figure Sam Rainsy will presumably return to his country, along with other exiled CNRP politicians, after spending the ...

The United States called for the immediate release of Cambodian opposition leader Kem Sokha Tuesday in a statement issued one week after the second ...

THE United Nations Commission on Human Rights (UNHCR) has hit out at Cambodia for the harassment of some 100 activists and detention of more than 20.

On September 2, 2017, the Cambodia opposition leader Kem Sokha was awoken around midnight to the sound of the police battering on his doors. Hauled in ...

Cambodia's opposition chief Kem Sokha has vowed not to “treat my supporters as shields” and urged them to adhere to the principles of nonviolence in a ...

FILE PHOTO: Supporters of Kem Sokha, leader of the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), stand outside the Appeal Court during a bail hearing for the ...

On the eve of the second anniversary of Kem Sokha's arrest, a lawyer for the president of the Supreme Court-dissolved Cambodia National Rescue Party has ...

Rights group calls for dropping of charges and release of Nuth Pich, a member of the dissolved opposition party.

The Grassroots Democratic Party (GDP) has urged the government to strengthen respect for human rights to avoid pressure from the international community, ...

Treason charges against opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) President Kem Sokha will not be dropped unless his legal team produces “new ...

In a rare public message while under house arrest, opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) president Kem Sokha on Thursday thanked supporters ...

Mu Sochua, the deputy president of the dissolved Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), has claimed that at least six Members of the European Parliament ...

Video footage apparently showing a WhatsApp conversation between Rainsy and Ry.

The government was unconcerned by a bill put to the US Senate last week that demands the “release” of Kem Sokha, the president of the Supreme ...

With senior leaders jailed or exiled, local and regional supporters of opposition report attacks and harassment.

There are only two likely reasons why Cambodian opposition leader Kem Sokha has been held in detention without trial for almost 19 months on treason ...

Chan Chen, a lawyer for Kem Sokha, who is currently on bail awaiting trial for treason, told local media on Sunday that his client's legal team will request that the ...

A story by Andrew Nachemson published in the South China Morning Post on April 30 provides a comprehensive summary of Aung San Suu Kyi's first state visit ...

UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Cambodia Rhona Smith, as part of her 11-day visit to the country, met Justice Minister Ang Vong Vathana to discuss ...

UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Cambodia Rhona Smith expressed her regret Tuesday that she had been refused permission by Cambodia's ...

UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Cambodia Rhona Smith again has been refused permission by Cambodia's government to meet and speak with ...

Cambodia drew *fresh* criticism this week from both a major human rights organization and the leaders of several trade organizations over Prime Minister Hun ...

Cambodian authorities should immediately and unconditionally release opposition party leader Kem Sokha from house arrest and drop the politically motivated ...

A court in Cambodia has refused to drop “treason” charges against opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) chief Kem Sokha citing an ongoing ...

Lawyers for Kem Sokha, the president of the Supreme Court-dissolved Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), revealed on Tuesday that a Phnom Penh ...

On March 30, 1997, four grenades were thrown into a crowd gathered in Phnom Penh to support rising political star Sam Rainsy. At least 16 people were killed ...

BANGKOK — A Cambodian court has issued arrest warrants for eight opposition leaders who fled abroad for safety but say they are now trying to return.

US and EU are calling for the opposition leader's release after 18 months in detention but it's not clear yet the government is listening.

Cambodian opposition leader Kem Sokha has spent more than 18 month in detention as of Sunday, with other opposition leaders decrying his case as politically ...

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Monday that opposition leader Kem Sokha will not be released from detention despite hitting the 18-month ...

As the March 3 deadline passed on Sunday, Sam Rainsy lost his wager with Prime Minister Hun Sen on Kem Sokha's legal situation. And analysts are predicting ...

The legal team of Kem Sokha, the president of the former opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), on Wednesday complained of being attacked by ...

In a Facebook posting, the US embassy in Phnom Penh calls CNRP leader Kem Sokha an innocent man held on unjust charges.

The Foreign Affairs Ministry on Saturday rebuked the United States embassy for saying former opposition leader Kem Sokha was arrested unjustly and noted ...

Last November, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen agreed to a wager with the exiled opposition leader Sam Rainsy. Broadly speaking, the understanding was ...

WIth just 20 days to go until the end of a timeframe used in a wager by Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) “acting president” Sam Rainsy to release party ...

The demonstration is being organized by a CNRP offshoot, the Cambodia National Rescue Movement, which was founded by the CNRP's former president Sam ...

Factional divisions within Cambodia’s banned opposition party came to the surface in December, pitting its two most prominent figures in a battle for ...

Phnom Penh Municipal Court has denied a plea from lawyers representing Kem Sokha for his treason charges to be dropped.

Former opposition leader Kem Sokha has called on all politicians to cease using immoral tactics in the political arena in 2019.

The leader of Cambodia's now-dissolved opposition party called for “genuine reconciliation” amid a political stalemate in the Southeast Asian nation in a ...

Cambodia's Parliament passed legislation Thursday that could allow a five-year ban on political activity by some top opposition politicians to be lifted.The action ...

Cambodia's merged opposition party teeters on the edge of a damaging split after its self-exiled former leader Sam Rainsy said that he had seized back the party ...

Self-exiled cofounder calls government decision a political maneuver but others see it as sign of genuine improvement.

Senior government officials said on Thursday that regardless of whether a proposed amendment to the law is passed, former opposition leader Kem Sokha will ...

The daughters of former opposition leader Kem Sokha hit out at Sam Rainsy on Tuesday, accusing the newly nominated “acting president” of the Cambodia ...

Sam Rainsy was nominated “acting president” of the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) as the curtain fell on the two-day international conference the ...

Former Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) president Kem Sokha on Sunday further distanced himself from an international conference held in the US by ...

The CNRP-USA (Cambodia National Rescue Party of the United States of America) fully backs former opposition leader Kem Sokha's decision to not support the ...

Former Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) president Kem Sokha has “denounced” a “so-called party conference” to be held in the US over the weekend, ...

Sam Serey, the leader of the Khmer National Liberation Front (KNLF), who is accused by authorities of being an armed rebel leader against the government of ...

Former opposition leader Kem Sokha has told his lawyers that he does not support the CNRP World Conference to be held this weekend in the state of Georgia ...

Today, the country is effectively a one-party dictatorship with the opposition party scattered across the world.

KEM Sokhon, brother of former opposition leader Kem Sokha, has been appointed secretary of state at the Ministry of Commerce.

Hun Sen has promised to step down as prime minister while opposition figure Sam Rainsy pledges to turn himself in as forfeits if the long-term political rivals ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen has responded to Sam Rainsy's dare, and accepted the wager concerning the release of Kem Sokha, who is under court supervision.

Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen has implicitly admitted to controlling the country's courts by saying that Kem Sokha, the head of the now-dissolved ...

Cambodian prime minister Hun Sen denied on Wednesday he has plans to free opposition leader Kem Sokha, rejecting comments made on Facebook by ...

A senior government official said on Sunday that former opposition party leader Kem Sokha, who is currently under home detention on “treason” charges, would ...

A lawyer for former opposition leader Kem Sokha, who is currently on bail as his treason case progresses, has called on Phnom Penh Municipal Court to ...

More than 560 policemen have been deployed to protect detained opposition leader Kem Sokha – a move defended as necessary to deter “social chaos” but ...

A taskforce has been created to guard former opposition leader Kem Sokha who was released on bail earlier this month.

Is it house arrest or not? That's the question dividing the Kingdom's legal experts and politicians, with little agreement other than this – being outside a ...

Phnom Penh Court has issued a statement saying that former opposition leader Kem Sokha is currently under court supervision.

PHNOM PENH • Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen batted down speculation yesterday that he caved in to international pressure after an opposition leader ...

Legal experts on Monday expressed mixed views on the duration of former opposition leader Kem Sokha's alleged house arrest. In the meantime, the European ...

Many Cambodian political prisoners have been released recently as the EU considers a resolution condemning the country's slide into authoritarianism.

The European Parliament (EP) on Thursday, Sept. 13, requested that all charges against former opposition leader Kem Sokha be dropped. It did find his recent ...

Kem Sokha is now placed under house arrest and is still denied access to his former colleagues at the Cambodia National Rescue Party, which was banned in ...

Cambodian opposition leader Kem Sokha has been unexpectedly released from prison where he was awaiting trial on charges of treason. Mr Sokha has been ...

The former leader of a disbanded Cambodian opposition party was released from jail and placed on house arrest on 10th September, Monday – three days ...

The following text tells the life story of Kem Sokha, president of the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party until it was dissolved last year, in his own words.

Leader of the Cambodia National Rescue Party was accused of treason after government crackdown on critics.

Kem Sokha could have led the opposition to victory in Cambodia but a year after his arrest, remains in jail.

Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen on Wednesday vowed to keep opposition chief Kem Sokha behind bars despite a recent spate of clemency for members of ...

A hearing on former opposition president Kem Sokha's continued detention on treason charges will be held on Thursday in Tboung Khmum province's Trapeang ...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Cambodia's imprisoned opposition leader was denied bail by the Supreme Court on Wednesday, disappointing supporters who ...

Cambodian authorities should drop all charges and immediately release the opposition leader Kem Sokha.

Former opposition members have launched a Facebook campaign for the release of Kem Sokha, who remains jailed on treason charges and is due to appear ...

A political analyst has claimed that former Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) president Kem Sokha will get bail later this month – once the ruling ...

Cambodians head to the polls on July 29, but there is no viable opposition left on the ballot.

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodia's Supreme Court on Monday rejected a plea for bail by detained opposition leader Kem Sokha, following his arrest last ...

Jailed opposition leader Kem Sokha may not face trial until after the July elections, after a Phnom Penh Municipal Court decision on Monday to extend his ...

A Cambodian court Thursday rejected a plea for bail by detained opposition leader Kem Sokha, following his arrest last year on charges of seeking to overthrow ...

The leader of the dissolved Cambodian National Rescue Party made the call in a New Year's message read out by his daughter in a Facebook video.

The court has also summoned Kem Sokha's lawyers to attend the questioning, scheduled for November 24.

The Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling that Kem Sokha remain jailed on treason charges. Authoritarian Prime Minister Hun Sen has launched a ...

"Fear is something constant," says Monovithya Kem, the daughter of Cambodian opposition leader Kem Sokha. "I can say that although we have always faced a ...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Lawmakers voted on Monday to approve the prosecution of Cambodia's opposition leader on charges he committed treason in ...

A grass-roots movement is building democracy from below -- and that terrifies the government in Phnom Penh.

Kem Sokha accused of conspiring with US to topple the government in charges his party say are politically motivated.

Cambodian opposition leader Kem Sokha has been arrested in the capital Phnom Penh on suspicion of treason, according to the government. The arrest marks ...