Sourn serey ratha biography sample

Sourn Serey Ratha, head of the Khmer Power Party, was sentenced on Friday to five years in prison over Facebook posts critical of Prime Minister Hun Sen and military leaders, just a day after his snap trial on incitement charges.

Nai Chariya, Mr.

Serey Ratha’s wife, decried the verdict as an injustice that curtailed free speech and said it would be appealed. “I will continue to protest to find him justice,” she said.

Phnom Penh Municipal Court Judge Ros Piseth also ordered Mr. Serey Ratha, 43, to pay a fine of 10 million riel, or about $2,, on the charges of “inciting military personnel to disobedience, demoralization of the army and incitement to commit felony.”

His lawyer, Sok Sam Oeun, said the sentence was too harsh and trampled on his right to free speech.

A frequent government critic, Mr.

Serey Ratha was arrested on August 13 in the wake of a brief border dispute with Laos that saw armored vehicles paraded aroun