Kem Sokha werd in 2017 gearresteerd. Hij zou met de Verenigde Staten hebben samengespannen om de regering van toenmalig premier Hun Sen omver te werpen.

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,...