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Preah Vihear court drops charges against villagers

The Preah Vihear Provincial Court has dropped all charges against eight ethnic Kuoy villagers who were in a land dispute with the Hengfu Group Sugar Industry Co Ltd since 2014. Wednesday’s decision was made by the judge who tried the case on June 10. The eight ...

Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/preah-vihear-court-drops-charges-against-villagers

Villagers face court over ELC protest

The Preah Vihear Provincial Court has ordered nine villagers to appear on Wednesday to respond to allegations that they dismantled the office of a Malaysian rubber plantation company five months ago. ...

Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/villagers-face-court-over-elc-protest

Soldier in murder case starts serving 2001 robbery sentence

A soldier arrested last week as a suspect in the recent murder of a police officer and a forest ranger in Preah Vihear province has started serving a 10-year prison sentence for a years-old armed robbery conviction. ...

Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/soldier-in-murder-case-starts-serving-2001-robbery-sentence-100346/

Journalists to lodge complaint to ACU over court corruption

Two local journalist associations are planning to file a complaint with the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) this week accusing the Preah Vihear Provincial Court’s acting chief prosecutor of charging journalists with extortion because they reported on an illegal-logging racket inside his family. ...

Saing Soenthrith
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/journalists-to-lodge-complaint-to-acu-over-court-corruption-79141/

Crops pulled: Locals and NGO staffer questioned

About 150 ethnic Kuoy villagers gathered outside Preah Vihear Provincial Court yesterday to protest the questioning of eight villagers and an NGO staff member for allegedly inciting villagers in Tbeng Meanchey district to destroy 36 tonnes of sugarcane. ...

Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/crops-pulled-locals-and-ngo-staffer-questioned

Rights worker summonsed over land fight

A rights group worker has earned a court summons for monitoring villagers who were embroiled in a Preah Vihear land dispute with a Chinese company. Lut Sang, the Khmer Ponlok employee scheduled to appear in provincial court today, said that he was only a passive observer ...

Phak Seangly and Amelia Woodside
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rights-worker-summonsed-over-land-fight

Journalists covering logging denounce abuse

The Club of Cambodian Journalists (CCJ) released a statement on Friday expressing concern over three recent cases of reporters facing harassment while attempting to document illegal logging in Preah Vihear, Pursat and Kompong Cham provinces. Sorn Mongkul, a reporter for Kampuchea Thmey newspaper based in Preah ...

Eang Mengleng
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/journalists-covering-logging-denounce-abuse-56775/

Warrant for missing tax man

The Anti-Corruption Unit on Monday ordered the arrest and imprisonment of a former Preah Vihear province tax official who was convicted in absentia in December and sentenced to three years in prison for exploiting his position for personal gain. According to the ACU’s announcement, former provincial ...

Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/warrant-missing-tax-man

Try Pheap loggers sued

More than 200 families filed a complaint with the Preah Vihear provincial court yesterday against two employees of logging tycoon Try Pheap who allegedly cleared 15 hectares of community forest late last year before being stopped by villagers. Huon Kino, 39, a representative of the 203 ...

Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/try-pheap-loggers-sued

Activists to be questioned in meddling suit

Ten land activists are set to be questioned today by Preah Vihear provincial court over their involvement in halting the drilling of a well in a community forest in November last year, rights monitors said yesterday. Lor Chhan, provincial coordinator for rights group Adhoc, told the Post the ...

Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/activists-be-questioned-meddling-suit

Journalist Lied Villagers Claim

More than 300 families embroiled in a land dispute with notorious, and now defunct, NGO Darpo said yesterday that they had filed complaints to the Preah Vihear Provincial Court on Wednesday accusing a Koh Santepheap reporter of disinformation and calling for his arrest and $4,000 ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012111659772/National-news/journalist-lied-villagers-claim.html

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