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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — A Cambodian court has acquitted a senior Ukrainian lawmaker of rape in a case he says was cooked up by political opponents.
Phnom Penh Municipal Court says Mykola Kniazhytsky is not guilty of raping a teenage woman in 2011. The case drew a brief flurry of media interest in Ukraine after Interpol issued a red notice seeking the lawmaker’s arrest back in March.
Kniazhytsky, a fierce critic of Moscow who chairs the Ukrainian parliament’s culture and faith committee, says he wasn’t in Cambodia on the day of the alleged assault and accuses opponents aligned with Russia …read more
Source: Asian Correspondent
