Cambodia’s opposition leader Sam Rainsy gets 10-year imprisonment
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court sentenced exiled opposition leader Sam Rainsy to 10 years in prison over an alleged plot to overthrow the Cambodian Government.
Exiled opposition leader Sam Rainsy (Photo: AFP/VNA)
Phnom Penh (VNA) - The Phnom Penh Municipal Court sentenced exiledopposition leader Sam Rainsy to 10 years in prison over an alleged plot to overthrowthe Cambodian Government.
Rainsy has lived in France since 2015 to avoid jail on anumber of convictions, including a 25-year sentence passed in March last year.
Together with Rainsy, the court also jailed six other senioropposition figures for 10 years each, and 13 more activists for three years andeight months each.
One other activist was given a suspended five-year sentence./.
Sam Rainsy, former president of the dissolved Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), was sentenced on December 30 to four years in jail after being found guilty of insulting Interior Minister Sar Kheng over a claim that the Cambodian government killed former national police chief Hok Lungdy in 2008.
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on March 1 decided to sentence Sam Rainsy, former leader of the dissolved opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), to 25 years in prison, and deprive him of the right to vote and stand as candidate in elections, Fresh News reported.
