CNRP asks to grill justice minister

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Lay Samean and Ananth Baliga

Amid a flurry of recent arrests related to the Kem Sokha sex scandal, opposition lawmakers in a letter yesterday asked Prime Minister Hun Sen to have the National Assembly convene a session so they could question Justice Minister Ang Vong Vanthana about the increasing politicisation of the judicial system.

The letter cites Article 96 of the constitution, which gives lawmakers the right to monitor and question the work of government officials, with CNRP chief whip Son Chhay saying their concerns went beyond the recent arrest of human rights workers and summonses for Sokha and two fellow parliamentarians.

“The government has changed the entire judicial system so that the whole court is now politicised and the government fully controls it through the minister,” he said.

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