Four land activists convicted

A COURT in the country convicted four land rights activists of plotting to provoke a peasant revolution by teaching farmers about class divisions and gave them five-year suspended prison terms.

The four – Theng Savoeun, president of the Coalition of Cambodian Farmer Community, and his colleagues Nhel Pheap, Than Hach and Chan Vibol – were arrested and charged in May last year by the Ratanakiri provincial court in northeastern Cambodia.