Cambodian land rights campaigner jailed for 20 years

1 October 2012
The Guardian
Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Economic land concessions and plantations / Human rights / Judiciary and courts / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Public land lease / Social development
Beehive Radio / Cambodia / Human Rights / Hun Sen / Kratie Province / Land rights / Phnom Penh / Phnom Penh Court / Sonando

A Cambodian court has jailed a 71-year-old broadcaster and land rights campaigner for 20 years after finding him guilty of leading an anti-state rebellion, a verdict condemned by activists as the latest crackdown on human rights. Three judges at the Phnom Penh court convicted Sonando, who has joint Cambodian-French citizenship, and 13 others of inciting villagers in eastern Kratie province to rebel against the government. The long-time rights campaigner and critic of the prime minister, Hun Sen, stood accused of inciting villagers to take up arms and of aiming to recruit up to a million people to topple the government… Sonando, the head of Beehive Radio, had pleaded not guilty to the charges …

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