Anger erupted in an Oddar Meanchey village as three youths aged 15 to 18 were arrested for allegedly raping and murdering a 17-year-old girl during the night after a New Year village dance party, police said.
Police are investigating the suspected murder of a 17-year-old girl after she was found dead in a stream over the weekend with scars on her body, local authorities said.
The body of a 7-year-old girl who went missing on her way to school was found buried in a field near the school, officials said.
Foreign Affairs Minister Prak Sokhonn plans to visit Myanmar in March. The Supreme Court upheld a life sentence for the bodyguard of local tycoon Thong Sarath, who has evaded prison time in relation to the 2014 murder of his business rival.
In Kampong Speu’s Sre Ken village, an 18-year-old’s alleged murder of his stepfather was met with sympathy. “Nobody disliked him,” a resident said of the 18-year-old. “But mostly we wished [the stepfather] would die.” The older man had been suspected of using black magic.
Six suspects have been arrested for allegedly murdering a family of five for allegedly performing witchcraft, and CNRP leader Kem Sokha’s trial is delayed on account of a Covid-19 positive case.
Despite receiving life sentences, local businessman Thong Sarath and four associates had murder charges dropped by the Appeal Court in 2020, according to proceedings in the Supreme Court on Wednesday.
A French Appeal court indicted senior Bodyguard Unit generals Hing Bun Heang and Huy Piseth for their involvement in the 1997 grenade attack targeting a Sam Rainsy rally.
A former provincial governor and his ex-provincial police deputy brother have had their 13- and 10-year prison sentences for the murder of a mistress upheld by the Supreme Court, which also upheld an incitement conviction against journalist Ros Sokhet.
A former Takeo governor and his older brother are appealing a murder conviction at the Supreme Court, where their lawyers claim that evidence presented in the case in fact proved them innocent.
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