By Vong Sokheng and Sebastian Strangio
The Phnom Penh Post
PHNOM Penh Municipal Court on Friday formally charged opposition leader Sam Rainsy with falsifying public documents and spreading disinformation, two weeks after government lawyers filed complaints against the embattled Sam Rainsy Party (SRP) president.
Sok Roeun, the court’s deputy prosecutor, said that preliminary investigations had led to the filing of the charges, but that further investigations were necessary before a trial date is set.
“Sam Rainsy was charged on Friday, and the investigating judge will continue investigating the cases and then will submit it to the trial judges,” he said.
Government lawyer Ky Tech filed the complaints against Sam Rainsy on February 26, after the SRP president released maps that the party said offered “unprecedented evidence” of Vietnamese border incursions. Sam Rainsy, who has already been sentenced in absentia to two years in jail for uprooting six wooden posts along the Vietnamese border in October, faces an additional 18 years in prison if convicted on the new charges.
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