Many political opponents were convicted during Hun Sen’s time in power while Kem Sokha’s CNRP co-founder Sam Rainsy remains in self-exile in France.

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,...