From Phnom Penh
Back to court.
After a suspension of almost two years, officially for health reasons, the trial of Cambodian political opponent Kem Sokha, 68, resumes today at the municipal court of Phnom Penh.
If the long years of waiting and proceedings have reduced the scale of the event, the stakes of this trial remain unchanged: it is about the political survival or death of the former president of the National Rescue Party of the Cambodia (PSNC), the main opposition party now dissolved, which is being prosecuted for "
treason
".
He faces up to thirty years in prison.
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This politico-judicial sea serpent dates back to 2017. In September of that year, Kem Sokha was arrested at his home and then placed in pre-trial detention for more than two years.
He is suspected of having wanted to overthrow, in "
collusion with foreign powers
", the government of Hun Sen, the indestructible Cambodian Prime Minister, in place since 1985...
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