CNRP mulls Rainsy’s next move

Speculation continues over if and when Cambodia National Rescue Party president Sam Rainsy will return to Cambodia, where he now faces a two-year prison term, as grassroots opposition members yesterday expressed “disappointment” at their leader’s continued absence.

CNRP officials will meet today in Phnom Penh to discuss the way forward after the decision by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Friday to enforce a long-dormant 2011 defamation and incitement conviction for alleging, in 2008, that Foreign Minister Hor Namhong ran a Khmer Rouge prison. …

Meas Sokchea and Shaun Turton
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