Cambodian police officers escort prisoners, in orange clothes, including Rong Chhun, president of the Cambodian Confederation of Unions, as they enter the Phnom Penh Municipal Court in Phnom Penh, Cambodia Friday, Jan. 15, 2021. The trial of the Cambodian labor union leader charged with inciting social unrest opened Friday, part of a large-scale legal offensive by the government against its critics. - AP
PHNOM PENH, Jan 17 (AFP): An outspoken union leader went on trial in Cambodia on Friday (Jan 15) for alleged incitement, the latest in a series of court cases activists say are aimed at cracking down on opposition voices.
Rong Chhun, the leader of the Cambodian Confederation of Unions, was arrested in July after accusing the government of "irregularities" over the demarcation of the eastern border with Vietnam. He said the newly agreed borderline encroaches on some locals' farmland.
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