![Rong Chhun, centre, one of Cambodia's most prominent union leaders is facing a court verdict on Wednesday [File: Tang Chhin Sothy/AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/000_1VX9Z9.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
Rong Chhun is accused of ‘incitement’ and faces up to two years in prison if convicted.
![Environmental campaigners are being jailed as the Cambodian government continues to crackd down on dissent [File: Tang Chhin Sothy/AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/000_1VU6XI.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
NGO that forced government into U-turn over controversial dam is latest target of deepening crackdown on dissent.
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Government using punitive laws to tackle surge in coronavirus cases, as closure of markets leaves people hungry.
![Cambodia recently administered its1 1,000,000th dose of COVID-19 vaccine, but cases have surged in the past few weeks, driven by the emergence of the UK variant [Mak Remissa/EPA]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/h_56812564.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
The Southeast Asian nation is battling a surge in COVID variant cases traced back to a quarantine breach.
![Supporters of Rong Chhun, the president of the Cambodian Trade Union Confederation, call for his release - part of a widening crackdown on critical voices in Cambodia [File: Kith Serey/EPA]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/h_56292925.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
The CNRP has been outlawed, its leaders jailed and exiled, functionaries targeted, but it continues to survive.
![Two former reporters for Radio Free Asia - Uon Chhin, left, and Yeang Sothearin, right - have gone on trial for espionage [File: Heng Sinith/AP]](/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/5d357cd31be74f86849de8047df3d68f_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
The two were arrested in a late night raid during 2017 political crackdown and accused of spying for the US.
![Officials say the migrants include a Rohingya man from Myanmar, two Iranian men and one Iranian woman [Phorn Bopha/Al Jazeera]](/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/40c4150039ba41e6baafa18ff80e86d4_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
First four refugees fly into Phnom Penh after Australia agrees to pay Cambodia $31m in controversial resettlement deal.
![More than 100 people in Roka commune have tested positive for HIV since late November [Al Jazeera]](/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/2014122191537744580_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
The unlicensed doctor could face life in prison after being charged with spreading HIV and violating medical ethics.
![The virus was allegedly spread by a doctor who treated patients using the same needle [EPA]](/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/2014121871353409734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Police questioning unlicensed doctor after more than 100 cases of HIV reported in Battambang community in one week.