The Council also urged the release of Kem Sokha, the CNRP president who was jailed in September on treason charges for his supposed role in an alleged plot to overthrow Hun Sen.
The move came after the U.S. State Department and Senate repeatedly warned that punitive measures would be forthcoming if Cambodia did not reverse recent anti-democratic actions.
Sao Sokha has previously attributed his success in the security forces to an affinity with the methods employed by German Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.
A demonstration is planned in the United States on June 16, while similar protests are also being called for in European countries and Japan and South Korea.
The MPs from the group Asean Parliamentarians for Human Rights (APHR) said in a statement this week that the now-dissolved Cambodia National Rescue Party should be allowed to contest the vote and that all political prisoners in the country should be freed.
The party of slain activist Kem Ley vows to win election.
The authorities said that all plots of land would be measured and allocated prior to the July 29 election.
New code of conduct for journalists forbids news that leads to 'loss of confidence' in the election.
VOA Khmer’s Chetra Chap on the sidelines of the Asian Studies conference to discuss with David Chandler about Cambodia’s relationship with China, authoritarianism in Southeast Asia, and his career as a historian.
The CNRP was dissolved and its lawmakers banned from politics in November after the Supreme Court ruled that it had tried to overthrow the government.
Europe, which historically has had the freest press in the world and had eight of the freest press sectors in the world, notched the largest decline in its regional indicator.
Cambodia’s Military Prepares to Battle an Uncontested Election
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