of Cambodia has taken several measures to restrict its media environment, especially through politicized tax investigations against independent media outlets that resulted in the closure of The Cambodia Daily and Radio Free Asia in early September 2017. Additionally, the Government of Cambodia ordered several radio stations to stop the broadcasting of Radio Free Asia and Voice of America programming. (6) Cambodia’s small number of independent trade unions and workers have the right to strike, but many face retribution for doing so, according to Freedom House. (7) Each of the 6 elections that have taken place in Cambodia since 1991 was conducted in circumstances that were not free and fair, and were marked, to varying degrees, by fraud, intimidation, violence, and the misuse by the Government of Cambodia of legal mechanisms to weaken opposition candidates and parties. The 2017 local elections were marked by fewer reported irregularities, however, which helped the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (in this section referred to as the CNRP ). Hun Sen responded to those improvements in elections, resulting in part from international assistance and observers, by banning the CNRP, the primary opposition party, which was growing in popularity, on November 16, 2017. (8) On September 3, 2017, Kem Sokha, the President of the CNRP, was arrested on politically motivated charges, including treason and conspiring to overthrow the Government of Cambodia. He has been tried in a Cambodian court and is facing a 27-year prison sentence. (9) In the most recent general election in July 2018, following the dissolution of the CNRP, the Cambodian People’s Party secured every parliamentary seat, an electoral victory that the White House Press Secretary stated was neither free nor fair and failed to represent the will of the Cambodian people . (10) In the 2022 local elections, the Candlelight Party, founded in 1995 as the Khmer Nation Party and renamed the Sam Rainsy Party in 1997, won 22 percent of seats. The United Nations Human