Prime Minister Hun Sen has accused Cambodia National Rescue Party president Sam Rainsy and opposition Senator Thak Lany of “slander” and “incitement” in two separate legal complaints filed…in response to comments linking him and his government to the murder of political analyst Kem Ley.

The lawsuits...call for the pair to face punishment according to the law, accusing them both of affecting the premier’s “dignity” and stoking public “anger” and “unrest”…

The complaint against Rainsy accuses the opposition leader of slandering the government, and thus, the premier, and sparking incitement by describing Ley’s killing as “state-backed terrorism” in a Facebook post...

Meanwhile, the case against Thak Lany, a Sam Rainsy Party senator, concerns remarks she allegedly made to supporters…in Ratanakkiri, which suggested more directly that Hun Sen was behind the shooting of Ley…