Two Cambodians held on rare royal insults charge after Facebook posts

FILE PHOTO: Cambodia's King Norodom Sihamoni greets Prime Minister Hun Sen at the Independence Monument while attending celebrations marking the 65th anniversary of the country's independence from France, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, November 9, 2018. REUTERS/Samrang Pring/File Photo

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Two Cambodian opposition figures have been charged under the country's rarely used lese majeste law with insulting King Norodom Sihamoni for posts made on Facebook about a photograph of the king and Prime Minister Hun Sen.

A judge at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court also charged Yim Sinorn and Hun Kosal with incitement to cause serious social unrest in the country, a court document showed.