Yorm Bopha was arrested on September 4, 2012 and sentenced to three years in prison on December 27, 2012 after being found guilty what she says were trumped-up charges. Her prosecution was widely perceived as related to her human rights activism, according to the International Federation for Human Rights. Her conviction was upheld on appeal on June 14, 2013 when the original custodial sentence of three years was reduced to two.