{"id":34850,"date":"2017-10-06T10:04:56","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T08:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/34850-cambodian-government-moves-to-dissolve-opposition-party.html"},"modified":"2017-10-06T10:04:56","modified_gmt":"2017-10-06T08:04:56","slug":"cambodian-government-moves-to-dissolve-opposition-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/34850-cambodian-government-moves-to-dissolve-opposition-party.html","title":{"rendered":"Cambodian government moves to dissolve opposition party"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Cambodia's government on Friday asked the country's top court to dissolve the main opposition party, which is hanging on by a thread after its leader was jailed on treason charges, sending scores of MPs into self-exile.<\/p>\n

The Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) has been battered by a government crackdown that is clearing out rivals of strongman premier Hun Sen ahead of a 2018 election that could have tested his 32-year grip on power.<\/p>\n

The government has used a mix of court cases, legal maneouvres and threats to sideline the opposition's leadership and drive more than half of its MPs out of the country in fear.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The exodus, prompted by the surprise arrest of the party's president Kem Sokha last month, has raised serious doubts about the party's ability to contest next year's poll.<\/p>\n

Its future was further imperiled Friday when lawyers from the Ministry of Interior lodged a complaint urging the Supreme Court to disband the CNRP for allegedly violating a controversial political parties law.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"There is strong and sufficient evidence for the Supreme Court to dissolve the CNRP,\" Ky Tech, one of the lawyers, told reporters outside the court house.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"If we keep (CNRP), it will lead to the destruction of the nation, so we must prevent it,\" he added.<\/p>\n

His team accused the CNRP of breaching a law that gives judges power to disband parties who threaten national security, take orders from a foreign entity or conspire with individuals whose activities are \"against the intest of Cambodia\", among other offences.<\/p>\n

When the legislation was passed earlier this year, rights groups warned it was a brazen attempt by Hun Sen to checkmate an opposition that had been making steady gains at the polls.<\/p>\n

The wily premier has long history of wielding the kingdom's pliant justice system to undermine his rivals.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Lawyer Ky Tech said the evidence of the party's wrongdoing lay in the same 2013 speech the government has seized on to accuse CNRP leader Kem Sokha of treason.<\/p>\n

The politician was detained in a surprise arrest on September 3 that sent fear rattling through the fragile democracy.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The main evidence cited for his charges is a public 2013 speech given in Australia in which he said he had received US help to build a pro-democracy movement inside Cambodia.<\/p>\n

Hun Sen alleges this is evidence that Kem Sokha was conspiring in a \"secret plan\" with Washington to oust the government.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In a message sent through his lawyers on Monday, Kem Sokha denied the treason charge as \"total slander\", a view echoed by the US and other democratic countries which have called for his immediate release.<\/p>\n

Supporters of Hun Sen say he has brought stability and growth to a nation once plagued by war.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Detractors say corruption and inequality has become rampant under his rule, fuelling support for the opposition and a yearning for change, especially among Cambodia's large youth population.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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