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Ex-CNRP’s Sochua says attempt to return for trial fails
Publication date 17 January 2021 | 23:23 | ICT

Mu Sochua, former vice-president of the Supreme Court-dissolved Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), claimed she had failed in her attempt to return for her trial as she did not have the necessary travel document.

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