A Cambodian court found six union leaders guilty on Tuesday of instigating violent protests against the government in 2013 and 2014, but suspended their jail terms, Reuters reports. The protests demanded a re-run of the July 2013 election, calling it rigged. On a Facebook post, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen kept the bar low in a statement marking the 70th anniversary of International Human Rights Day, asserting that under his 33-year rule Cambodia’s people now enjoy more freedoms and rights than they did during the 1975-1979 rule of the Khmer Rouge. Hun Sen has ruled Cambodia in a quasi-authoritarian fashion, bending the rules of democracy just enough to maintain deniability, but the recent crackdown and outright banning of the opposition are unprecedented, writes Mo Sochua for Al-Jazeera.