Ex-opposition leader guilty of treason and sentenced to 27 years’ house arrest

Kem Sokha has been found guilty of treason (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

A court in Cambodia on Friday found Kem Sokha, leader of the dissolved Cambodia National Rescue Party, guilty of treason and sentenced him to 27 years’ imprisonment to be served under house arrest.

Judge Koy Sao of the Phnom Penh Municipal Court said that Mr Kem Sokha, backed by foreign powers, had used human rights and politics as a guise to organise people to stage a “colour revolution” aimed at toppling the legal government.