Law and judiciary

Crime and law enforcement

Life on the farm at CC4

A remote jail opened more than five years ago to lessen chronic overcrowding in the prison system is also operating as a farming business, where free labour is seemingly used to yield big profits for senior staff.When Correctional Centre 4 (CC4) opened its gates in ...

May Titthara and Alice Cuddy
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/life-farm-cc4

Road deaths up almost 15%

A national road safety action plan established in 2011 is severely off target and road deaths could surpass 3,200 by 2020 unless drastic action is taken, the National Road Safety Committee (NRSC) warned yesterday.In total, 2,226 people were killed in 4,645 recorded traffic accidents in ...

Pech Sotheary and Charles Parkinson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/road-deaths-almost-15

Death toll on roads at more than 1,800 so far

More than 1,800 people have died on Cambodia’s roads so far this year, representing an almost 4 per cent increase in casualties compared to the same period in 2014. ...

Chhay Channyda and Charles Parkinson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/death-toll-roads-more-1800-so-far

Drivers flee after truck crash injures 75 workers

More than 70 garment workers in Svay Rieng province were injured on Wednesday evening, four seriously, when two trucks transporting them home from work collided during heavy rain, police said Thursday.  ...

Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/drivers-flee-after-truck-crash-injures-75-workers-94682/

Cambodia will not investigate protest shooting death, government spokesman says

Cambodian authorities will not pursue inquiries into the shooting death of a man killed during anti-government protests two years ago, a government spokesman said today as a Cambodian rights group slammed the Southeast Asian nation’s “dangerous path” away from democracy. ...

Morm Moniroth
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/investigate-09152015173349.html

Cambodian NGOs, provincial officials applaud interior minister’s warning against illegal fishing

Cambodian nongovernmental organizations and officials in Sihanoukville province have applauded a warning issued earlier this week by Interior Minister to local authorities to not accept bribes from Thai and Vietnamese fishermen to fish in the Southeast Asian nation’s waters. ...

Den Ayuthea
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/ngos-provincial-officials-applaud-interiror-ministers-warning-against-illegal-fishing-09092015153353.html

Svay Rieng Court summons CNRP lawmakers for questioning over violent clash at the border

The Svay Rieng provincial court will summon a number of lawmakers from Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) to give answer before court over the violent clash on June 28th near border pole 203.​ ...

The Cambodia Herald​ News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/svay-rieng-court-summons-cnrp-lawmakers-for-questioning-over-violent-clash-at-the-border-8938

Nightclub fire kills five

A nightclub fire in Phnom Penh has killed five women and seriously injured two other men, officials said late Monday.Patrons inside had been trapped when the fire broke out at the Key Club, in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district, said Prum Yorn, municipal fire chief. ...

Neou Vannarin
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/nightclub-fire-kills-five/2952236.html

Man charged with posting death threat on Facebook

Phang Seiha, who is originally from Prey Veng province, was arrested Saturday in the border town of Poipet, where he was returning to Cambodia from Thailand. Authorities say he posted a death threat to Sok Touch, an academic who is tasked with reviewing Cambodia’s border ...

Neou Vannarin
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/man-charged-with-posting-death-threat-on-facebook/2951024.html

Interior minister orders strict enforcement of new traffic law

Interior Minister Sar Kheng held a “solidarity dinner” with some 500 traffic police on Wednesday, ordering them to be strong in dealing with infringing motorists ahead of the implementation of the new Land Traffic Law, officials said Friday. ...

Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/interior-minister-orders-strict-enforcement-of-new-traffic-law-93518/

Koh Kong authorities defend crackdown on protesters

The provincial government in Koh Kong says authorities were within their rights to detain more than a dozen people and break up a demonstration over the arrest of three environmental activists. ...

Hul Reaksmey
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/koh-kong-authorities-defend-crackdown-on-protesters/2947030.html

Court orders continued detention of opposition senator

The Court of Appeals on Wednesday upheld a lower court’s decision to jail an opposition senator, who is accused of posting false border maps online, an offense Prime Minister Hun Sen has likened to “treason.” ...

Hul Reaksmey
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/court-orders-continued-detention-of-opposition-senator/2942351.html

Bomb pair in Cambodia, say police

Police believe the two prime bombing suspects in the Erawan and Sathon pier explosions are hiding in Cambodia and have asked Phnom Penh authorities to hunt them down, a Crime Suppression Division (CSD) source said Monday. ...

Bangkok Post News Staff
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/security/675552/bomb-pair-in-cambodia-say-police

22 Chinese arrested in Cambodia over telephone scams

Cambodian police arrested 22 Chinese, who were suspected of transnational telephone fraud, in southeast Cambodia’s Svay Rieng Province on Saturday, August 29. ...

CRI English News Staff
http://english.cri.cn/12394/2015/08/30/2281s893775.htm

Gunfire exchange leaves one suspect dead

Police in Banteay Meanchey province’s Poipet city exchanged gunfire on Monday’s night with three suspected thieves on, leaving one suspect died at the scene. ​ ...

The Cambodia Herald​ News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/gunfire-exchange-leaves-one-suspect-dead-8883

Bus depots will move to city outskirts in bid to ease traffic

Phnom Penh governor Pa Socheatvong held a meeting with the city’s bus companies Thursday to inform them that starting next year, their depots and pickup points must be located outside the city center as part of efforts to ease worsening traffic congestion. ...

Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/bus-depots-will-move-to-city-outskirts-in-bid-to-ease-traffic-92200/

Gov’t spells out inmate exit policy

The Ministry of Interior yesterday ordered all prisons across the country to release inmates scheduled to be freed on weekends and public holidays ahead of time rather than prolonging their sentence. ...

May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/govt-spells-out-inmate-exit-policy

Fines up after new rule: gov’t

The announcement last month that traffic cops will collect 70 per cent of fines they give out has already seen enforcement increase, according to a senior official at the Interior Ministry.Speaking yesterday, General Run Roth Veasna, director of the ministry’s Department of Order, said tickets ...

Charles Parkinson and Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/fines-after-new-rule-govt

Water at Prey Sar back … sort of

After nearly a year of dry taps, the water supply at Phnom Penh’s Prey Sar prison has finally been restored, but inmates are still being forced to pay for the so-called luxury commodity, according to those who live and work there. ...

Alice Cuddy and May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/water-prey-sar-back-sort

Cambodian court charges opposition senator with 3 counts of crimes

A Cambodian court on Sunday charged opposition senator Hong Sok Hour with three counts of crimes and ordered to place him in a pre-trial detention, according to court officials and a defense lawyer. ...

The Cambodia Herald​ News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/cambodian-court-charges-opposition-senator-with-3-counts-of-crimes-8841

Bus crash death toll reaches 17

The number of casualties from last week’s fatal bus crash in the Dankrek Mountains rose to 17 on Friday, after victim Sem Sambath, 58, succumbed to her injuries, Siem Reap Provincial Hospital director Pen Phalkun said yesterday. ...

Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/bus-crash-death-toll-reaches-17

Bus crash near border kills 16

At least 16 were killed and another 23 injured yesterday when a bus careened off an embankment in the Dangkrek Mountains as its brakes and transmission failed, police said. ...

May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/bus-crash-near-border-kills-16-0

Taps still dry at Pailin prison

A new provincial prison in Pailin’s Sala Krao district still has no running water supply six months after it accepted more than 100 prisoners, local officials say.The prisoners arrived in early March after being transferred from their former prison – an old movie theatre in ...

Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/taps-still-dry-pailin-prison

Prison spot checks ordered

The Minister of Interior has ordered senior officials to conduct unannounced spot checks of the Kingdom’s detention centres in an effort to ensure that inmates are not receiving ill treatment behind bars. ...

Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/prison-spot-checks-ordered

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