Cambodians face rare royal insult charge

King Norodom Sihamoni lights the SEA Games torch with a candle lit from the sun’s rays as Prime Minister Hun Sen looks on during a ceremony at Angkor Wat in Siem Reap on March 21. The Southeast Asian Games will be held from May 5 to 17 in Cambodia. (Photo: AFP)

PHNOM PENH: Two Cambodian opposition figures have been charged under the country’s rarely used lese-majeste law with insulting King Norodom Sihamoni for posts made on Facebook about a photograph of the king and Prime Minister Hun Sen.

A judge at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court also charged Yim Sinorn and Hun Kosal with incitement to cause serious social unrest, a court document showed.