Authorities have rescued 75 foreign nationals from a border town in Oddar Meanchey province following raids against online scam operations in Sihanoukville, Phnom Penh and elsewhere — though a local police official argued the work being done with forced labor was “normal.”
More NagaWorld protesters are being summoned to court, with charges in the still-murky case now including breaking and entering, intentional damage and even illegal confinement.
Po Hin Lean was gunned down in a rice field in the middle of the night this week. The killing likely relates to a heavy-handed police crackdown on illegal fishing. The man’s political affiliations also cast shadows over his death.
Judges in the Kem Sokha treason trial have agreed to a two-month break before finally heading into closing arguments in the already-prolonged trial against the former CNRP president.
Exiled opposition leader Sam Rainsy was convicted and sentenced to life in prison for a meeting he had with an indigenous minority leader in 2013 pledging to uphold the rights of Cambodia’s indigenous people.
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