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The American human rights lawyer sentenced to six years in a Phnom Penh prison may cause Hun Sen no end of trouble.

Theary Seng receives six-year sentence in ongoing mass trial of government critics in Phnom Penh

Phnom Penh (AFP) - Cambodians voted in local polls on Sunday as a revived opposition party attempted to dent Prime Minister Hun Sen's decades-long grip on power ahead of national elections next year.

Cambodia holds local elections Sunday and new opposition party hopes to chip away at the dominance of the ruling party.

Speaking from the back of a pickup truck decked out with campaign posters and loudspeakers, veteran politician Son Chhay is determined to convince voters that democracy in Cambodia is not dead.

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Thursday that opposition party leader Kem Sokha, who is on trial accused of treason, should be permitted to travel overseas for medical treatment, in a rare conciliatory move.

The regime has stripped the citizenship of 33 critics since March in a move that violates international law.

The situation in Cambodia can perhaps be described as straddling a testament and a predicament. The testament is the 30th anniversary of the Paris Peace Agreements (October 1991) which brought peace to the country after a long period of warfare and the "recent tragic past". It established a pivotal framework…

Trial involving exiled leaders Sam Rainsy and Mu Sochua among several targeting the forcibly dissolved CNRP.