Cambodian environmental activists Ly Chandaravuth (right), Phun Keoraksmey (2nd R), Thun Ratha (2nd L), Long Kunthea (left) sit outside Phnom Penh municipal court during a verdict in Phnom Penh on Tuesday, July 2, 2024. A Cambodian court on July 2 sentenced 10 environmentalists to between six and eight years in jail for plotting to commit crimes in their activism -- the latest legal crackdown on the country's green campaigners. - AFP
PHNOM PEN (Reuters): A Cambodian court handed jail terms of up to eight years to 10 activists of environmental group Mother Nature, on charges of plotting against the government and insulting the king, the group's founder and a lawyer said on Tuesday.
The verdict comes amid growing concerns about freedom of expression in Cambodia under Prime Minister Hun Manet, who took power last year after the decades-long rule of his father, Hun Sen.
