Rector says sudent was warned against activism

After a Khemerak University student was jailed in Phnom Penh on 22 August over a social media post calling for a “color revolution” in Cambodia, the school’s director on 24 August claimed that politics had “poisoned” students at his institution.

Police arrested Kong Raya, 25, at the university on 20 August after he posted a message to his Facebook page earlier this month in which he vowed to “make a color revolution to change the regime for Khmer society.”

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