The activists were arrested for documenting the draining of waste into Phnom Penh's Tonle Sap river AFP/TANG CHHIN SothyPHNOM PENH: A Cambodian court has charged four environmental activists with insulting the king and plotting against the government, an official said on Monday , after three of them were arrested for documenting waste run-off into a river.
Over the weekend they were"charged with conspiracy to plot and for insulting the king", Plang Sophal, a spokesman for Phnom Penh Municipal Court, told AFP in a text message on Monday. While Cambodia has a constitutional monarch, King Norodom Sihamoni, it has long been ruled by its strongman premier Hun Sen - who is Asia's longest-serving leader.
If sentenced, the Mother Nature activists face a maximum penalty of five years in prison for insulting the king, as well as 10 years behind bars for the conspiracy charge.
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