{"id":10938,"date":"2019-11-10T15:47:50","date_gmt":"2019-11-10T06:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/10\/senior-cambodian-opposition-figure-kem-sokha-out-of-house-arrest"},"modified":"2019-11-10T15:47:50","modified_gmt":"2019-11-10T06:47:50","slug":"senior-cambodian-opposition-figure-kem-sokha-out-of-house-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=10938","title":{"rendered":"Senior Cambodian opposition figure Kem Sokha out of house arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Founder of Cambodia National Rescue Party, charged with treason in 2017, cannot leave country or join political activities <\/p>\n<p>Cambodia has freed a prominent opposition figure from house arrest more than two years after he was charged with treason, after attempts by his colleagues to return to the country were thwarted.<\/p>\n<p>Kem Sokha <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2017\/sep\/05\/cambodias-opposition-leader-kem-sokha-charged-with-treason\">was arrested in 2017<\/a> and accused of plotting to overthrow the government of strongman Hun Sen, who has ruled since 1985. He was sent to a remote prison, then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/sep\/10\/cambodia-opposition-leader-kem-sokha-released-from-prison\">confined to his house<\/a> and the surrounding block and prohibited from talking to the media.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/10\/senior-cambodian-opposition-figure-kem-sokha-out-of-house-arrest\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Founder of Cambodia National Rescue Party, charged with treason in 2017, cannot leave country or join political activities Cambodia has freed a prominent opposition figure from house arrest more than two years after he was charged with treason, after a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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-10938","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\/10938","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10939,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10938\/revisions\/10939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}