Authorities met again over the country’s ongoing human trafficking scourge, in a committee headed by National Police and military police bosses Neth Savoeun and Sao Sokha — pledging action regardless of any suspected links to those officials.
Sixteen Malaysians and five Vietnamese were rescued in two separate rescues from forced-labor compounds on August 30, authorities said.
Prosecutors and government lawyers tried to link opposition leader Kem Sokha to garment workers’ demonstrations in the capital in 2013-2014, as his lawyers again argued that the evidence did not support the charge of treason.
Soldiers have blocked the road into politician Khem Veasna’s Siem Reap farmstead, where thousands of worshippers gathered to avoid an apocalyptic flood that Veasna claimed he had now prevented with his chakra.
A Chinese “blood slave” convicted of fabricating his tale received a suspended jail sentence of just three months — and has already been sent home — while three accomplices including trafficking rescuer Chen Baorong were sentenced to two years in jail.
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