Two Siem Reap military police officers tasked with fighting drug crimes in the province were charged with conspiracy to traffic drugs and failing to report a crime.
Human rights officials who were convicted of bribing the alleged lover of an opposition leader brought their case to the Appeal Court on Thursday, calling for the woman, who filed the complaint against them, to testify.
The founder of a minor party was arrested and imprisoned after failing to show up for questioning for allegedly using forged documents while trying to register his party last year.
About 100 people protested outside a commune hall in Svay Rieng’s Romeas Hak district, demanding a resolution to land they lost to a sugarcane company in 2010.
Indigenous community representatives who say they filed a complaint against a company for encroaching on community forests have been summoned to court over defamation and incitement.
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court sentenced Voeun Veasna, a former monk who was involved in forestry activism, to two years in prison for incitement over criticisms he posted on Facebook.
Defense lawyers in the trial of the opposition leader presented videos in court Wednesday as evidence he had only pushed for electoral change.
Three community representatives involved in a long-running dispute with the energy minister’s wife were taken into police custody over the weekend in relation to a separate dispute, residents said.
The chair of the company, as listed with the Commerce Ministry, is Ye Yanshou, whom police named last month as the owner of an alcohol disinfectant factory that was operating as a drug lab.
Transcripts of phone calls between a CNRP activist and his wife and among opposition supporters, in which they spoke of Covid-19 concerns including a potential government cover-up, featured in the penultimate hearing of a mass trial case at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court.
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