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Theary Seng, right, a Cambodian-American lawyer, dressed in a prison-style orange outfit, greets her supporters as she arrived at Phnom Penh Municipal Court in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on Jan. 4, 2022. The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention said in a judgement late Wednesday, July 12, 2023, that while attorney Theary Seng had been convicted of conspiracy to commit treason and other charges last year, her only crime was “making two posts on Facebook critical of Hun Sen,” Cambodia's autocratic prime minister. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith, File)

U.N. expert group calls for release of Cambodian-American human rights activist after investigation

By Sopheng Cheang - Associated Press

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen claps during the 71st anniversary celebration of the Cambodian People's Party (CPP) at its headquarters in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Tuesday, June 28, 2022. A quasi-independent review board has recommended that Facebook suspend that Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen’s Facebook and Instagram accounts for six months for using language that could incite violence. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith, File)

Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen had been a huge Facebook fan. Now he’s threatening to ban it

By Sopheng Cheang and Grant Peck - Associated Press

Cambodia Prime Minister Hun Sen, right, shows a mobile device to Philippine's President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr., during the ASEAN - South Korea Summits (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Friday, Nov. 11, 2022. Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen, a devoted and very active user of Facebook, says he will no longer upload to the platform, and instead depend on the Telegram app for getting his message across. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath, File)

Cambodian leader Hun Sen, a huge Facebook fan, says he is jumping ship to Telegram

By Sopheng Cheang and Grant Peck - Associated Press

FILE - Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen claps during the 71st anniversary celebration of the Cambodian People's Party (CPP) at its headquarters in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Tuesday, June 28, 2022. Cambodia’s long-serving leader says his government will amend the country’s election law to bar anyone who fails to vote from standing as a candidate in future elections, in what would be the latest marginalization of his political foes. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith, File)

Cambodian leader says people who don’t vote will be barred from being candidates in future elections

By Sopheng Cheang and Grant Peck - Associated Press

In this photo provided by Kok Ky/Cambodia's Government Cabinet, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, center right, prays together with his minister of Culture and Fine Arts Phoeung Sackona, center left, in front of a sandstone statue at Peace Palace, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Friday, March 17, 2023. Centuries-old cultural artifacts that had been illegally smuggled out from Cambodia were welcomed home Friday at a celebration led by Prime Minister Hun Sen, who offered thanks for their return and appealed for further efforts to retrieve such stolen treasures. (Kok Ky/Cambodia's Government Cabinet via AP)

Cambodia celebrates return of ‘priceless’ stolen artifacts

By Sopheng Cheang - Associated Press

Workers move boxes loaded with COVID-19's vaccine before a handing over ceremony at Phnom Penh International Airport, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Tuesday, March 2, 2021. More than 300,000 doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines from Serum Institute of India on Tuesday arrived Phnom Penh, as part of global COVAX initiative. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen inoculated against COVID-19

By SOPHENG CHEANG - Associated Press

First COVAX vaccines arrive in Cambodia from India

By SOPHENG CHEANG - Associated Press

Workers pull boxes loaded with COVID-19 vaccines before a handing over ceremony at Phnom Penh International Airport, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Sunday, Feb. 7, 2021. Cambodia on Sunday received its first shipment of COVID-19 vaccine, a donation of 600,000 doses from China, the country's biggest ally. Beijing has been making such donations to several Southeast Asian and African nations in what has been dubbed &quot;vaccine diplomacy,&quot; aimed especially at poorer countries like Cambodia. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

Cambodia gets first COVID-19 vaccine from key ally China

By SOPHENG CHEANG - Associated Press

Cambodian court security personnel direct relatives who were called on to attend a trial as they arrive at Phnom Penh Municipal Court, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Thursday, Nov. 26, 2020. A Cambodian court on Thursday began hearing the cases of nearly 130 opponents and government critics charged with treason for taking part in nonviolent political activities over the past three years, in what one of them described as a sham trial. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

Cambodia begins mass trial of opposition activists

By SOPHENG CHEANG - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 18, 2012, file photo, activist Theary Seng poses with dart board posters during a protest in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Activist and lawyer Theary Seng, is one of dozens of people have been targeted by Cambodian government in its most severe legal offensive against its political opponents in three years. (AP Photo/Luke Hunt, File)

Cambodia readies treason trials against political dissidents

By SOPHENG CHEANG - Associated Press

Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto, left, poses with Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen for a photo prior to a meeting at Peace Palace in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020. Szijjarto tested positive for the coronavirus after arriving in Thailand for an official visit, Thai and Hungarian officials said Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2020. (Pool Photo via AP)

Cambodia’s prime minister in quarantine after Hungarian meet

By SOPHENG CHEANG - Associated Press

Cambodian navy troop members stand on a navy boat at Ream Naval Base in Sihanoukville, southwestern of Phnom Penh, Cambodia on July 26, 2019. Cambodia's government on Monday, Oct. 5, 2020, officially denied suggestions that its demolition of a U.S.-funded facility at one of its naval bases is a signal that China will be granted basing privileges there, saying the work only involves planned infrastructure improvements. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

US expresses concern over China link to Cambodian base

By SOPHENG CHEANG - Associated Press

Cambodian leader denies China’s navy granted basing rights

By SOPHENG CHEANG - Associated Press

Cambodian leader meets rival who faces treason charges

By SOPHENG CHEANG - Associated Press

U.S. Ambassador to Cambodia W. Patrick Murphy arrives at the sea port where the MS Westerdam, owned by Holland America Line, docked in Sihanoukville, Cambodia, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2020. After being stranded at sea for two weeks because five ports refused to allow their cruise ship to dock, the passengers of the MS Westerdam were anything but sure their ordeal was finally over. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

Cambodia gets more praise for allowing cruise ship to dock

By SOPHENG CHEANG and GRANT PECK - Associated Press

A passenger, right, is hugged by Cambodia Prime Minister Hun Sen after she disembarked from the MS Westerdam, owned by Holland America Line, at the port of Sihanoukville, Cambodia, Friday, Feb. 14, 2020. Passengers finally disembarked on Friday from the cruise ship allowed to dock in Cambodia following two weeks of being stranded at sea after being refused entry by four Asian governments because of virus fears. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

Cruise stranded by virus fears ends with roses in Cambodia

By SOPHENG CHEANG - Associated Press

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen (right) visited China last week while officials in Beijing and Wuhan were reporting alarming increases in deaths and infections from the novel coronavirus. (Associated Press)

Hun Sen, Cambodia leader, shows no COVID-19 fear

By Richard S. Ehrlich - Special to The Washington Times

Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen gestures during a speech on the current state of a new virus from China in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2020. Cambodia's leader has urged citizens to remain calm about the new virus from China, which has been confirmed in a single case of a visitor from Wuhan. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

Cambodian leader blasts online misinformation about virus

By SOPHENG CHEANG - Associated Press

In this photo provided by the Kep Provincial Authority, emergency workers remove the body of a victim from a collapsed building in Kep province, southern Cambodia, Saturday, Jan. 4, 2020. The seven-story building under construction collapsed Friday while around 20 workers were inside. (Kep Provincial Authority via AP)

Death toll surges as Cambodian building collapse search ends

By SOPHENG CHEANG - Associated Press

Trial of Cambodian opposition party chief set for next month

By SOPHENG CHEANG - Associated Press