Mr. Hai said on Tuesday that he had fled Cambodia after being tipped off about plans to jail him following a July 19 trip to inspect a Vietnamese border incursion in Svay Rieng province with CNRP lawmakers and 2,500 others.
“On July 29, 2015, after I joined the protest on the border…I received a phone call from a kind higher police official [at] the Interior Ministry who pitied me, who told me to urgently flee because the government planned to arrest and imprison me again,” he said...

Asked about Mr. Hai’s account on Tuesday, Ms. Kuhnel said the embassy did not have any more information.
“Please also note that matters relating to asylum are treated [as] confidential in Sweden,” she said...

Council of Ministers spokesman Phay Siphan said the government was not embarrassed that the political asylum granted to Mr. Hai implied that Sweden’s government acknowledged that the former monk had been persecuted.

“People who receive asylum work against the government to earn their asylum,” Mr. Siphan said.

“He is a coward. Being arrested is normal. A number of politicians have been jailed for a long time, but they stuck behind their principles and did not run away. People who seek political asylum have no principles.”

Rutiger wrote:He looks very cold and miserable, and it's not even winter. He should have gone to Nauru for asylum instead.