Nuon Toeun, who was deported from Malaysia for making comments about Cambodian leader Hun Sen, is now detained in Correction Center 2, also known as Prey Sar prison, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

“She is being charged with inciting to commit acts that cause serious disturbance to social security and incite discrimination," Nuth Savna said.

Nuon Toeun often used social media to criticize Cambodia’s leadership including Prime Minister Hun Manet and his father Hun Sen, who held the post from 1985 until last year before passing the role to his son and taking a new role as president of the senate.

She also criticized how the Cambodian government handled social issues.

A few days before her arrest, Nuon Toeun had posted a video to her Facebook page, in response to a comment telling her to “be mindful of being the subject of sin,” in reference to her talking negatively about Hun Sen.

“If I have sinned because I [have cursed] this despicable guy, I am happy to accept the sin because he has mistreated my people so badly,” she said in the video. “I am not a politician, but I am a political observer and expressing rage on behalf of the people living inside Cambodia.”

Nuon Toeun had been a supporter of the Cambodian National Rescue Party, or CNRP, which had been the main opposition party in the country prior to its supreme court declaring the party illegal and dissolving it in 2017.

Ahmad Jamal condemned the Malaysian authorities for deporting Nuon Toeun, saying, “It is a human rights abuse that should not be allowed in democracies. Joining hands with a dictatorship is against international law.”

Nuon Toeun was working legally in Malaysia and did not deserve to be arrested or deported, Sadat Samathi, the president of the Global Cambodian Youth Network in Malaysia, told RFA.