Cambodia's acting head of state, former prime minister Hun Sen, pardoned opposition leader Kem Sokha on Monday from a sentence of almost three decades for treason.

Cambodian opposition leader Kem Sokha has received a royal pardon from his 27-year treason sentence.

PHNOM PENH, May 25 — Cambodia’s king has pardoned former opposition leader Kem Sokha for a treason conviction, just weeks after he lost an appeal to overturn that verdict,...