Cambodian court convicts exiled opposition leader

PHNOM PENH: Cambodian opposition leader Sam Rainsy was sentenced to five years in prison on Tuesday over a post on his Facebook page, a conviction that makes his return from self-imposed exile unlikely.

The conviction caps a major crackdown this year on critics of the country’s strongman leader Prime Minister Hun Sen, who has run Cambodia for more than three decades often with the help of pliant courts.