Cambodian policemen walk past the Phnom Penh Capital Court of First Instance in Phnom Penh on September 23, 2010. Photo courtesy: AFP. Cambodian military police stand guard in front of the Phnom Penh Capital Court of First Instance in Phnom Penh on September 23, 2010. Photo courtesy: AFP. PHNOM PENH, Thursday 23 September 2010 (AFP) - A Cambodian court on Thursday sentenced fugitive opposition leader Sam Rainsy to 10 years in jail for forging and publishing a false map of the border with Vietnam. In January, Sam Rainsy, who lives in self-imposed exile in Europe, was already sentenced in absentia to two years in prison over a related conviction for uprooting border posts and inciting racial discrimination. Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen maintains close relations with the Vietnamese regime but Sam Rainsy, whose political party shares his name, has repeatedly accused the government of ceding land to Vietnam.

Cambodian policemen walk past the Phnom Penh Capital Court of First Instance in Phnom Penh on September 23, 2010. Photo courtesy: AFP.
Cambodian military police stand guard in front of the Phnom Penh Capital Court of First Instance in Phnom Penh on September 23, 2010. Photo courtesy: AFP.

PHNOM PENH, Thursday 23 September 2010 (AFP) - A Cambodian court on Thursday sentenced fugitive opposition leader Sam Rainsy to 10 years in jail for forging and publishing a false map of the border with Vietnam.

In January, Sam Rainsy, who lives in self-imposed exile in Europe, was already sentenced in absentia to two years in prison over a related conviction for uprooting border posts and inciting racial discrimination.

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen maintains close relations with the Vietnamese regime but Sam Rainsy, whose political party shares his name, has repeatedly accused the government of ceding land to Vietnam.