# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kem-ley
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:51:38.896Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kem-ley"
name: "Kem Ley"
slug: "kem-ley"
description: "Kem Ley was a Cambodian activist, physician, and political commentator. He was known for his political commentary, including trenchant criticisms of the current government led by Cambodian People's Party (CPP). This made him popular with many Cambodian people and the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party. He was assassinated in what has been claimed to have been a politically motivated attack on 10 July 2016 at a petrol station in Phnom Penh. He is the third notable activist to be killed in recent years, after union leader Chea Vichea in 2004, and environmental activist Chut Wutty in 2012."
tagline: "Cambodian political commentator and activist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dr._Kem_Ley.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1970-10-19"
deathDate: "2016-07-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.83
  momentum:             2.962962962962963
  historical:           6.347337333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.kemleyresearcher.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%94%98%E7%A3%8A"
    title: "甘磊"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kem_Ley"
    title: "Kem Ley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kem_Ley"
    title: "Kem Ley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kem_Ley"
    title: "Kem Ley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://km.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%9E%80%E1%9F%82%E1%9E%98_%E1%9E%A1%E1%9E%B8"
    title: "កែម ឡី"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kem_Ley"
    title: "Kem Ley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kem_Ley"
    title: "Kem Ley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25768223"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump