{"id":12939,"date":"2020-01-15T15:30:10","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T06:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/15\/cambodia-treason-trial-of-opposition-figure-kem-sokha-begins"},"modified":"2020-01-15T15:30:10","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T06:30:10","slug":"cambodia-treason-trial-of-opposition-figure-kem-sokha-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=12939","title":{"rendered":"Cambodia: treason trial of opposition figure Kem Sokha begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former head of opposition party faces 30 years in prison over charges which most consider politically motivated<\/p>\n<p>The trial of a top Cambodian opposition leader charged with treason has begun, more than two years after he was arrested in what is widely seen as a politically motivated prosecution.<\/p>\n<p>Kem Sokha was head of the Cambodia National Rescue Party when he was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2017\/sep\/05\/cambodias-opposition-leader-kem-sokha-charged-with-treason\">arrested in September 2017<\/a> on the basis of an old video showing him at a seminar where he spoke about receiving advice from US pro-democracy groups.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/15\/cambodia-treason-trial-of-opposition-figure-kem-sokha-begins\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former head of opposition party faces 30 years in prison over charges which most consider politically motivatedThe trial of a top Cambodian opposition leader charged with treason has begun, more than two years after he was arrested in what is widely se&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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":[41,361,53,86,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-cambodia","category-human-rights","category-law","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\/12939","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12940,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12939\/revisions\/12940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}