China and Cambodia enjoy deep traditional friendship and have achieved fruitful results in pragmatic cooperation in all fields, Premier Li Keqiang said.
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Sam Rainsy, the acting president of Cambodia’s banned opposition party slammed Phnom Penh Tuesday for refusing to allow exiled opposition officials into the country to defend themselves against treason and incitement charges in their own trials.
Sam Rainsy, who has lived in self-imposed exile since late 2015, tried to return in Nov. 2019, but his plan to enter Cambodia from Thailand was thwarted when he was refused permission to board a Thai Airways plane in Paris.
The first mass trial for former lawmakers, members, or supporters of the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) began last week with 59 of an estimated 136 defendants facing what could be 12 years’ imprisonment and a fine of 4 million Cambodian riels (U.S. $ 990), for their alleged role in Sam Rainsy’s failed plan to return to Cambodia.