{"id":10832,"date":"2019-11-07T04:00:36","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T19:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/07\/crackdown-in-cambodia-as-opposition-leader-vows-to-return-from-self-imposed-exile"},"modified":"2019-11-07T11:50:15","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T02:50:15","slug":"crackdown-in-cambodia-as-opposition-leader-vows-to-return-from-self-imposed-exile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=10832","title":{"rendered":"Crackdown in Cambodia as opposition leader vows to return from self-imposed exile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Rainsy has pledged to restore democracy in Cambodia after four years in wilderness, but faces arrest when he enters the country<\/p>\n<p>Cambodia\u2019s prime minister Hun Sen has ordered troops at the border with Thailand to be on high alert and led a crackdown on supporters of his former main opposition party, as its leaders plot a dramatic return to the country.<\/p>\n<p>Cambodian National Rescue Party (CNRP) leaders living in self-imposed exile have vowed to \u201crestore democracy\u201d by returning to the country on 9 November. In the run-up to Saturday Cambodian authorities have jailed CNRP supporters and promised to arrest Sam Rainsy, the party leader, if he enters the country.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/07\/crackdown-in-cambodia-as-opposition-leader-vows-to-return-from-self-imposed-exile\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Rainsy has pledged to restore democracy in Cambodia after four years in wilderness, but faces arrest when he enters the countryCambodia\u2019s prime minister Hun Sen has ordered troops at the border with Thailand to be on high alert and led a crackdown &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,361,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-cambodia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10832"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10842,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10832\/revisions\/10842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}