Cambodian broadcaster sentenced to 20 years on insurrection charges

Judge Chaing Sinat of the Phnom Penh Municipal Court said 71-year-old Mam Sonando was convicted and sentenced Monday on four counts related to an alleged secessionist movement in eastern Cambodia.

His Beehive Radio is one of the country's few radio stations broadcasting criticism of Prime Minister Hun Sen's government.

The Cambodian Center for Human Rights condemned the verdict and the sentence as a violation of the right to free expression.

It said no evidence was presented at the trial linking Mam Sonando to unrest involving a land dispute in Kratie province that the government alleged amounted to a rebellion.

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