PHNOM PENH: United Nations envoys have urged Cambodia to release five human rights workers, detained in the fall out of a sex scandal that engulfed the country’s floundering opposition movement.

Four current and one former employee of the Cambodian Human Rights and Development Association (ADHOC) were jailed in April for allegedly encouraging a 25-year-old hairdresser to deny having an affair with acting opposition leader Kem Sokha.

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