Cambodia News: Kem Sokha

PARIS - On April 4, a group of international buyers' associations from the garment, footwear, sporting and travel goods industries sent a letter to Cambodian ...

Despite boasting unrivaled tourist attractions, large stores of natural resources that could be profitably and responsibly exploited, and one of the world's ...

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

The government on Tuesday said it had “noted” 25 recommendations made by the UN Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review (UPR), saying they ...

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

Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen on Friday unveiled his strategy to offset the loss of a preferential trade agreement that the European Union is likely to ...

The recent tragic massacre in Christchurch by an Australian extremist, unleashing his hatred in New Zealand's mosques, puts the spotlight on giant tech ...

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 ...

Five former opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) politicians on Monday held their first press conference since receiving political rehabilitation, ...

Five former CNRP politicians who recently had their ban on politics lifted yesterday defended their choice in seeking clemency, noting that it was necessary for ...

Sam Rainsy will face “trenches equipped with machine guns” at the border, Hun Sen warns.

Senior member of the former CNRP defended their decision to have their political ban lifted as they want to see a political solution.

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

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 ...

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 ...

A website called *Fresh* News has become one of the country's most useful sources of political misinformation and propaganda in Cambodia.

Cambodia's Ministry of Interior on Thursday issued detailed instructions for the political rehabilitation of lawmakers from the banned opposition Cambodia ...

Kem Sokha's lawyers on Monday again slammed Sam Rainsy for using the fate of their client in a bet with Prime Minister Hun Sen, a wager he was almost ...

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 ...

PHNOM PENH, Feb. 16 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia on Saturday slammed the Embassy of the United States to Cambodia for a misleading comment concerning the ...

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 ...

Kong Korm, a former CNRP top adviser, yesterday appeared at Phnom Penh Municipal Court to be questioned as a witness in the treason case against former ...

Washington, D.C – Protesters gathered in Washington this weekend to call for more diplomatic pressure to be placed on the Cambodian government over its ...

Supporters of the former opposition party yesterday opened a two-week conference in the United States by issuing a five-point strategy to ensure the safe return ...

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

Kem Sokha's supporters slam Rainsy for planning to host a CNRP meeting in the US.

Opposition leader Sam Rainsy on Wednesday asked to be charged with treason alongside his fellow Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) co-founder Kem ...

FORMER politician Kong Korm said he is willing to appear before Phnom Penh Municipal Court to testify in relation to the treason charge facing Kem Sokha, ...

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

Interior Minister Sar Kheng said on Thursday that the reinstatement of opposition leader Kem Sokha's political rights, which would open the door for his possible ...

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 ...

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

PHNOM PENH — 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 ...

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

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

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

The announcement was made at a gathering of overseas party members in Atlanta, GA, this week, which was billed as the first Cambodia National Rescue Party ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

At a press conference to conclude her 11-day visit to Cambodia, UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in Cambodia Rhona Smith on Thursday called for ...

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 ...

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.

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Parliament urged Cambodia on Thursday to drop all charges against opposition leader Kem Sokha, deepening the ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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

A court in Cambodia on Thursday extended by six months the pre-trial detention of Kem Sokha, the former leader of the country's main opposition party.

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 ...

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 ...

Cambodia opposition leader Kem Sokha was denied bail Wednesday after almost a year in jail on treason charges that critics say were trumped up by premier ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Cambodia's jailed opposition leader Kem Sokha on Monday said he would not negotiate with the ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP) for a resolution to the ...

The Trump administration should impose sanctions on Hun Sen's generals, the linchpins of his repressive rule.

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 ...

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

Cambodia's Supreme Court on Monday upheld a lower court decision from March denying the request of jailed opposition leader Kem Sokha's lawyers that he ...

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 ...

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.

He is accused of working with the US to overthrow the ruling Cambodian People's Party, a charge the opposition say is politically motivated.

"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 ...

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

The move comes amid a wider crackdown on dissent ahead of parliamentary elections next year, with a particular focus on groups linked to Washington.

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — The leader of Cambodia's main opposition party, Kem Sokha, was arrested early Sunday at his home and accused of treason for ...