Cambodian union leader given 2 year prison sentence following comments govt says incited civil unrest

[Thaiger]

An influential Cambodian labour union leader has been handed a 2 year prison sentence over comments that the government says were insensitive and incited social unrest. His comments pertained to the country’s border. The sentencing came yesterday. Rong Chhun is the president of the Cambodian Confederation of Unions and has been in police custody for over a year following the government’s claims that Rong disseminated false information about Cambodia’s border with Vietnam. A week prior to his arrest, the union leader said on the US-backed Radio Free Asia programme that farmers in eastern Cambodia had complained that their land was […]

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[gummy]

So that's were our puppet PM really gets his ideas from, and I always thought he got them from reading the toilet pan.