Sam rainsy et kem sokha biography
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Kem Sokha
Cambodian politician
In this Cambodian name, the surname is Kem. In accordance with Cambodian custom, this person should be referred to by the given name, Sokha.
Kem Sokha (Khmer: កឹម សុខា; born 27 June 1953) is a Cambodian former politician and activist who most recently served as the President of the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP). He served as the Minority Leader, the highest-ranking opposition parliamentarian, of the National Assembly from December 2016 to January 2017, and previously as the First Vice President of the National Assembly from August 2014 to October 2015.[2][3][4] He represented Kampong Cham as its Member of Parliament (MP) from 2008 to 2017. From 2007 to 2012, Kem was the leader of the Human Rights Party, which he founded.
Kem was arrested and imprisoned at a detention centre in Tbong Khmum Province on 3 September 2017 under allegations of treason. In November 2017, the CNRP was dissolved, and 118 of it
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Kem Sokha: Jailed for standing up to Cambodia's strongman
The Cambodian ruling party's landslide win in recent elections came as little surprise - the widespread jailing of rivals meant there was almost no political opposition left. The most prominent of them remains in prison, with no immediate prospect of release, as George Wright reports.
In the early hours of Sunday 3 September last year, Kem Monovithya, a politician and daughter of motstånd leader Kem Sokha, received a call from her parents - armed police were attempting to break into their family home in the capital Phnom Penh.
"My mum said there's more than 100 people ansträngande to break into our house," Monovithya said in an interview last month.
They had no warrant, but with their guards being held at gunpoint, her father decided it would be safer to open the door.
"He told me he had to get off the phone because 'they are going to handcuff me'," she recalls.
Then the ph
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