10 jailed for supporting top trade unionist


Facing the music: The activists sitting inside a vehicle heading towards the Phnom Penh municipal court in Phnom Penh. — Reuters

Authorities imprisoned 10 activists for demonstrating in support of a prominent union leader who was jailed in August over accusations he falsely claimed that land in the South-East Asian country had been ceded to neighbouring Vietnam.

Cambodia has for centuries fretted about territorial encroachments by Vietnam to the east and Thailand to the west.

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