Cambodia’s Supreme Court upholds conviction of prominent land rights activist Tep Vanny

Cambodia’s Supreme Court upheld a conviction on Wednesday on a prominent land rights activist who was jailed for two and a half years in 2017 for her role in a 2013 protest outside Prime Minister Hun Sen’s house.
Tep Vanny, who fought the evictions of thousands of residents from lakeside land in the capital Phnom Penh to make way for a luxury real estate project, was found guilty of inciting violence and assaulting security guards while trying to deliver a petition to Hun Sen on a…