Army commander and Hun Sen’s son Hun Manet was invited to speak to journalists on press freedom day. A Mother Nature cofounder’s Supreme Court appeal was rejected Tuesday.
Assaults on news media leave a huge gap, too easily filled by social media disinformation. Chaos in information plays out well for autocrats, who are happy to demonize those challenging false narratives, writes Annie Game, director of free expression group IFEX.
The reporters were purportedly investigating a motorbike seller for selling vehicles without tax certificates.
A video report alleging a Battambang timber factory was illegally processing luxury wood has landed a local journalist in court.
LSN publisher Los Seng was put under judicial supervision by the Kampot Provincial Court on Thursday after two LSN reporters, who are also on bail, covered a provincial land dispute in November 2021.
In a rejection of a provincial leader’s push for hardline monitoring of journalists, the head of the Ministry of Information this week denounced the arbitrary detention of two reporters and urged authorities to more closely cooperate with media workers.
A Koh Kong journalist was sentenced to a year in prison for incitement on Thursday — without a lawyer and just two days after being questioned by police — over a report that the deputy governor was “cruel and abuses citizens.”
An audio recording, shared with VOD, appears to show Defense Minister Tea Banh instructing Koh Kong officials to take action against journalist Youn Chhiv. Several government-aligned media outlets have reported on Banh’s instructions, including some that quoted from the recording.
District authorities deleted photos on reporters’ cameras and made them leave a public area as authorities demolished residents’ homes, allegedly without compensation, near the Boeng Tompun lake development.
Some 1,061 cases of “fake news” have been identified by the Information Ministry this year, according to a ministry report — 910 of them for inciting criticism of the government or insulting the country’s leaders.
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