Cambodia has made its first arrest under a contentious lèse-majesté law that outlaws insulting the country’s monarchy, broadening the already extensive arsenal of repression at the disposal of the state. Police in Kampong Thom province arrested Kheang Navy, a 50-year-old teacher, over a Facebook post that allegedly accused Cambodia’s king and other members of the royal family of colluding with the government to ban the the Cambodian National Rescue Party (CNRP), the main opposition political party, Reuters reports.

 

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