Int’l support strong for jailed activists: CNRP

The CNRP hopes pressure by the international community will help free 15 of its members imprisoned in cases widely believed to be politically motivated, an opposition spokesman said yesterday after visiting the detainees. Cambodia National Rescue Party spokesman Yim Sovann told reporters outside Prey Sar prison that the diplomatic community was pushing “very hard” to free the men.

Noting efforts by US Secretary of State John Kerry during his visit in late January, Sovann said he believed that there would be a solution “soon”. “[Kerry] met with a [CNRP] delegation and told us he would try very hard to help find a resolution,” said Sovann, who also acknowledged lobbying by the EU and the Inter-Parliamentary Union, a group with representatives from 167 parliaments.

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