JUDICIARY, AUTHORITY, AND MILITARY(13th – 17th May 2024)
The Supreme Court upheld the conviction of the founder and former president of the Cambodia National Heart Party (CNHP) Siem Pluk and three former members of the steering committee who were last year sentenced by the lower court from two years to two years and six months in prison each for allegedly forging thumbprints to register the party in 2021.
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court sentenced a 48-year-old woman, a former activist of the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), to 18 months in prison for writing a Facebook post alleging that the government displayed discrimination and bias in distributing poor ID cards to the people last year.
