Cambodia squeezes online speech despite threat of EU backlash

European delegates to decide if country keeps preferential trade status

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Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has been irked by false social media posts claiming that he is dead. © Reuters

DAVID HUTT, Contributing writer

PHNOM PENH -- Even as the European Union readies to visit Cambodia this week to decide whether the country should be removed from a preferential trade scheme due to lack of political reforms, Prime Minister Hun Sen is trying to enact two laws that could further stifle online speech, a move certain to rile EU negotiators.

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