Cambodia: Is Kem Sokha sentence a step toward tyranny?
20 March 2023 |
10:53 am
A Cambodian court has convicted the leader of the country's only viable opposition party of treason. The move comes just four months before a general election and a long-planned dynastic handover of power.
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