Cambodia News: Kem Sokha

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

Cambodia's Parliament has passed legislation that could allow the lifting of a five-year ban on political activity by top opposition politicians.

PHNOM PENH, Dec. 13 (Xinhua) -- The National Assembly of Cambodia on Thursday amended the Law on Political Parties to clear the way for banned ...

After 2018's election, Cambodia's once united opposition veers toward a split.

A senior official at the Ministry of Interior on Monday said that opposition leader Sam Rainsy would not be eligible for a reinstatement of his political rights if a ...

Rath Rott Mony, the president of the Cambodian Construction Workers Trade Union Federation (CCTUF), in Chiang Mai, Thailand, in an undated photo.

On Human Rights Day on Monday, Prime Minister Hun Sen expressed pride that since the end of the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime in 1979, Cambodian ...

Cambodian People's Party (CPP) spokesman Sok Eysan accused human rights groups on Sunday of practising “double standards” for failing to criticise the ...

PHNOM PENH -- Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen is considering reversing a ban on more than 100 opposition politicians to avert European Union sanction.

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

When Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen spoke at the United Nations General Assembly in September, just months after his ruling party won an election ...

The Permanent Committee of the National Assembly met on Wednesday to discuss the proposed amendment to Article 45 of the Law on Political Parties ...

The US has urged Cambodia to restore the independence of the media, drop charges against Kem Sokha and other political prisoners, and end the prohibition ...

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

CNRP leader Kem Sokha was released from prison in September after spending more than a year in jail on treason charges.

Protestors shout slogans and carry placards against Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen during a rally outside United Nations headquarters in New York, Sept.

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 ...

The government on Thursday rejected a request by the leader of the Khmer National Liberation Front (KNLF), Sam Serey, to be allowed to form a legitimate ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Wednesday that he purposely let the leaders behind mass protests following the 2013 national elections flee Cambodia, after ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Four lawyers representing former opposition leader Kem Sokha received death threats in a Facebook post a week after they issued a statement condemning a ...

The head of the government's human rights body, Keo Remy, has questioned the US' attitude to human rights after its embassy in Phnom Penh delayed his ...

A Cambodian opposition leader reportedly remains effectively under house arrest and his aide is calling for the politician's freedom of movement.

Outgoing US ambassador William Heidt (L) receives a gift from Prime Minister Hun Sen (R) during a farewell meeting at the Prime Minister's office in Phnom ...

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

The Bar Association of the Kingdom of Cambodia (BAKC) on Thursday issued a press release confirming that Heang Rithy, the former vice-president of the ...

A defence lawyer for the opposition on Wednesday defended their “legalism” after Prime Minister Hun Sen slammed them as “incompetent” and “unqualified”, ...

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 ...

Cambodia's opposition leader Kem Sokha (L) sits with his mother Sao Nget while confined by the government at his residence in Phnom Penh, Sept. 11, 2018.

The UN Human Rights Council's (UNHRC) Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Cambodia, Rhona Smith, on Tuesday, focused on “judicial independence” ...

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 ...

Officials from Phnom Penh Municipal Court and the Ministry of Justice defended the decision to reject a request from the UN Human Rights Council's Special ...

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

Cambodian opposition leader Kem Sokha on Friday mourned the death this week of a party member in his first public statement after being moved from prison ...

The Cambodian delegation to the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) in Geneva has slammed the body's Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians after ...

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.

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

The freeing of Kem Sokha has raised bigger questions about power and the way it is exercised in Cambodia.

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

He says the government is trying to drive a wedge between him and CNRP president Kem Sokha.

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 ...

Interior Minister Sar Kheng on Sunday revealed the story behind the transfer of former opposition party leader Kem Sokha from Trapaing Phlong prison in Tbong ...

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 ...

Lawyers for bailed opposition leader Kem Sokha said on Tuesday that they will seek clarification as to the conditions applied to his release – which they have ...

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.

Speaking in a Sept. 4 interview in the RFA studio with Vuthy Huot of RFA's Khmer *Service*, the former chief of Cambodia's now-dissolved Cambodia National ...

Weighing in again on the detention of former opposition colleague Kem Sokha, Sam Rainsy suggested over the weekend that US President Donald Trump and ...

Phnom Penh Municipal Court has summoned labour rights defender Vorn Pov to appear in court next week for questioning regarding his relationship with former ...

He dismisses rumors that the head of the now-dissolved CNRP could be freed after a hearing this week.

With one eye on its international reputation after a deeply flawed general election, Cambodia's government has released 14 opposition activists in what it says is ...

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: Cambodian opposition leader Kem Sokha was denied bail on appeal on Wednesday (Aug 22), despite a string of high-profile figures being ...

Former opposition leader Sam Rainsy has called on Prime Minister Hun Sen to help secure the release of former CNRP leader Kem Sokha who was arrested on ...

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

With the ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP) poised to form the next elected government, analysts have said that alleged political prisoners, including the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Kem Monovithya, a Cambodian political activist, was visiting Switzerland in September when she got a phone call from her father.

The Grassroots Democratic Party (GDP) held its first major rally of the campaign period in the capital on Tuesday while pushing a platform that included a ...

The campaign season is now underway in the Kingdom and at least three political parties have included in their platform promises to release the “political ...

Cambodia National Rescue Party supporters hold placards that read 'Free Kem Sokha' during a protest outside the court of appeal in Phnom Penh, Sept.

The former president of the court-dissolved Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), Kem Sokha, was awarded the Asian Human Rights Peace Prize last ...

South Korean rights group the National Council of Churches (NCC) on Friday awarded its Asian Human Rights Peace Prize to the jailed president of ...

The Appeal Court yesterday denied bail to former CNRP leader Kem Sokha for the second time, leaving him jailed on treason charges for allegedly conspiring ...

The Appeal Court on Tuesday rejected a request for bail from Kem Sokha on health grounds after a closed-door session held in his absence. It lasted for about ...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia – A Cambodian appeals court has denied bail to opposition leader Kem Sokha who faces a treason charge widely seen as part of the ...

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court has summonsed eight people as witnesses to testify at the trial of Kem Sokha for alleged “treason”. The warrants were signed ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday insisted that former CNRP leader Kem Sokha must remain in jail on treason charges as the UN called for his immediate ...

The Supreme Court will today hold a hearing over the extended pre-trial detention of former CNRP leader Kem Sokha, who remains jailed on charges of treason ...

Cambodia's Supreme Court on Monday rejected a plea for bail by detained opposition leader Kem Sokha, following his arrest last year on charges of seeking to ...

Cambodian police block a street near the Supreme Court during a hearing over the extended pre-trial detention of jailed Cambodia National Rescue Party ...

Four lawyers representing imprisoned former opposition leader Kem Sokha were let go without explanation on Tuesday. The former Cambodia National Rescue ...

In advance of Khmer New Year, imprisoned former opposition leader Kem Sokha published a letter Wednesday urging democratic change and national ...

UPDATED at 12:00 P.M. EST on 2018-4-6. Jailed opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) President Kem Sokha has called on court authorities to ...

Sao Nget, 92, the mother of Cambodia's opposition leader Kem Sokha, cries as she walks with assistants outside the appeals court in Phnom Penh, which ...

The Appeal Court rejected a challenge from jailed opposition leader Kem Sokha against the extension of his pre-trial detention on Tuesday, as the notorious ...

PHNOM PENH: Former Cambodian opposition leader Kem Sokha is to remain in jail while awaiting his trial after the Appeal Court on Tuesday (Mar 27) ...

Jailed former opposition leader Kem Sokha will be brought to the Appeal Court on Tuesday to challenge a decision made in early March to extend his pre-trial ...

Lawyers representing former opposition leader Kem Sokha, who remains jailed on treason charges, filed a request to Phnom Penh Municipal Court asking that it ...

Jailed former opposition leader Kem Sokha has lost his final bid for bail as he awaits trial on a charge of “treason” – an allegation widely believed to be politically ...

UN special Rapporteur Rhona Smith's request to meet with jailed opposition leader Kem Sokha in a Tbong Khmum prison was rejected by an investigating ...

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 group of Southeast Asian lawmakers are calling for the “immediate and unconditional release” of Cambodian opposition leader Kem Sokha on the cusp of the ...

The legal team for imprisoned opposition leader Kem Sokha filed a request yesterday for their client to be temporarily transferred to Singapore for medical ...

Cambodian People's Party spokesman Chhim Phal Virun was questioned Tuesday morning as a witness in the “treason” charges brought against former ...

Whisked into the Appeal Court under the cover of darkness, former CNRP President Kem Sokha on Thursday made his first trip from a Tbong Khmum prison to ...

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 ...

Jailed former opposition leader Kem Sokha will appear before the Appeal Court tomorrow morning for a bail hearing and is being transported to Phnom Penh ...

Kem Samathida, daughter of imprisoned opposition leader Kem Sokha, responded last night to former CNRP head Sam Rainsy's assertions about her father's ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen and former opposition leader Kem Sokha offered starkly divergent New Year's messages to the Cambodian people, with the former ...

Opposition leader Kem Sokha is accused of colluding with the US to conspire against the government.

Kem Sokha, arrested on Sunday and charged with 'colluding with foreigners', could face up to 30 years in prison.