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Senator gets seven years for Facebook border post

Opposition Senator Hong Sok Hour was sentenced to seven years in prison on Monday for forgery and incitement after presenting a border treaty on Facebook that the CNRP says merely contained a mistranslation. ...

Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/opposition-senator-sentenced-seven-years-prison-fake-vietnam-treaty-120293/

Preah Vihear officials charged in graft case

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court charged two officials from the Preah Vihear mines and energy department with corruption yesterday, with a former colleague linking the charges to an illicit 2014 land sale. ...

Phak Seangly and Mech Dara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/preah-vihear-officials-charged-graft-case

Border treaty case proceeds

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday decided to proceed with charges of “forging public documents” and “incitement” against former opposition senator Hong Sok Hour and said a verdict would be announced on November 7. ...

May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/31326/border-treaty-case-proceeds/

Ministry investigates surrogacy services

The Justice Ministry is investigating accusations that surrogacy services are being offered in the Kingdom as rumors spread online. Minister of Justice Ang Vong Vathana said yesterday at a three-day workshop launching the “Explanatory Note of Domestic Adoption,” he was unsure if the rumors pertained to ...

Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/31036/ministry-investigates-surrogacy-services/

Timber trafficking grandma charged in Phnom Penh

Well-known timber trafficker Heng Samneang was charged on Sunday with illegal logging and interfering with the work of public officials, according to a Phnom Penh Municipal Court officer, days after she allegedly tried to retrieve some of her ill-gotten timber with the help of a ...

Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/timber-trafficking-grandma-charged-phnom-penh-119360/

Wood trafficker arrested, but where is she?

Military police said they arrested a well-known timber trafficker in Stung Treng province on Thursday after she and a group of stick-wielding thugs attempted to retrieve a pile of wood officers had seized a day earlier. ...

Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/wood-trafficker-arrested-119276/

Ven Vorn loses appeal

Environmental campaigner and Areng Valley community leader Ven Vorn lost his appeal against his one-year suspended sentence for “collecting forest products without permission” yesterday at the Appeals Court. Judge Kim Danny did not give reasons why the court decided to uphold the March ruling of the ...

Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30048/ven-vorn-loses-appeal/

Nine entry points into city cut off ahead of Kem Sokha’s hearing

At least nine police checkpoints on the major entry points into Phnom Penh have been set up ahead of today’s trial of acting CNRP president Kem Sokha, with the opposition claiming supporters were being hindered from attending a party rally. ...

Mech Dara, Ananth Baliga and Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/nine-entry-points-city-cut-ahead-kem-sokhas-hearing

After five years, case against Boeung Kak activists has trial date

Four Boeung Kak lake activists, including recently jailed community leader Tep Vanny, will face trial next month for a five-year-old case of insulting and obstructing public officials during a 2011 protest at City Hall. ...

Niem Chheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/after-five-years-case-against-boeung-kak-activists-has-trial-date

Rattanakiri court to hear logging case

The Rattanakiri provincial court will hear a case against provincial officials brought by rights group Adhoc on Wednesday, which accuses them of failing to prevent illegal logging in Lumphat district. ...

May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/28335/rattanakiri-court-to-hear-logging-case/

Mining companies told to comply

Only a few days after the Koh Kong Provincial Court found three environmental activists guilty for protesting against a sand dredging company, the Ministry of Energy and Mines has called for greater civilian participation in protecting The Kingdom’s natural resources. ...

Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/26950/mining-companies-told-to-comply/

Minister: hands-off judiciary

Justice Minister Ang Vong Vathana has never interfered in a judicial decision, he said during a speech in front of a half-vacant National Assembly yesterday. ...

Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25993/minister--hands-off-judiciary/

Labor ministry sues union officials

Labor Ministry officials have filed a complaint to the Phnom Penh Municipal Court accusing four union officials of public defamation, insulting public officers and blocking public roads. ...

Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24037/labor-ministry-sues-union-officials/

PM dispatches sons to handle land dispute arrests

Two village representatives in Kampong Speu who were detained for protesting against the actions of their provincial authority were released yesterday by the provincial court after Prime Minister Hun Sen sent two of his sons to help deal with the situation. ...

Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/22816/pm-dispatches-sons-to-handle-land-dispute-arrests/

Residents seek legislative intervention in land dispute

About 65 villagers from Kampong Speu province’s Phnom Srouch district handed out petitions yesterday urging the National Assembly to push the provincial court into releasing two of their leaders.​ ...

Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/22744/residents-seek-legislative-intervention-in-land-dispute/

Court summons businessmen in connection to timber

Although they remain publicly unnamed, nine businessmen in the timber industry were summoned to appear at the Tbong Khmum provincial court today for alleged deforestation crimes and illegal business dealings, according to officials. ...

May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/22346/court-summons-businessmen-in-connection-to-timber/

Opposition’s return to parliament could help jailed activists

With the return of the Cambodia National Rescue Party to the National Assembly this week, following a boycott that began in November, analysts say there is a chance some of the party’s activists could be released from jail. ...

Hul Reaksmey
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/opposition-return-to-parliament-could-help-jailed-activists/3107125.html

For many sexual assault victims, justice is elusive

For many Cambodian victims of sexual assault, justice can be hard to find. Not only can it be difficult culturally to report rape and other crimes, but police and the courts are not necessarily well trained to deal with sensitive crimes. Add to that judicial ...

Aun Chhengpor
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/for-many-sexual-assault-victims-justice-is-elusive/3093519.html

Rural Cambodians attack court over land dispute jailings

Dozens of protesters in rural Cambodia broke through a gate and tried to push their way into a provincial court, which had detained three villagers in a land dispute in the northeastern part of the country. More than 170,000 families across the country were adversely ...

Sok Khemara
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/cambodia-land-disputes/3085844.html

Court issues new summons for opposition leader Sam Rainsy

Phnom Penh Municipal Court has issued a summons for opposition leader Sam Rainsy to appear in January, to answer court questions in a new defamation case. The court actions against Sam Rainsy come despite widespread condemnation by the international community and fears that Cambodia’s upcoming ...

Hul Reaksmey
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/court-issues-new-summons-for-opposition-leader-sam-rainsy/3084587.html

Foreign minister says Cambodia’s judiciary is fair

Cambodia’s foreign minister defended the country’s judiciary before a group of diplomats Thursday, addressing an arrest warrant issued last week for opposition leader Sam Rainsy. ...

Hul Reaksmey
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/foreign-minister-says-cambodia-judiciary-is-fair/3065440.html

Cambodia denies Sam Rainsy arrest warrant was politically motivated

Cambodia’s Foreign Minister Hor Namhong on Thursday dismissed claims that a court decision to issue an arrest warrant for Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) President Sam Rainsy was politically motivated and said his lawyer had acted alone in pursuing a defamation case against the opposition ...

Thai Tha
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/warrant-11192015170611.html

Cambodian opposition senator's trial postponed indefinitely

Cambodia’s Phnom Penh Municipal Court has indefinitely postponed the trial on charges of “forgery and incitement” of jailed opposition senator Hong Sok Hour, adjourning again on Wednesday after proceedings resumed following an earlier postponement on Oct. 2. ...

Morm Moniroth
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/postponed-10072015155917.html

Koh Kong court detains a forestry activist over forestry crime

The Koh Kong provincial court today decided to detain a forestry activist for illegally collecting product and sub-product of forest. ...

The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/koh-kong-court-detains-a-forestry-activist-over-forestry-crime-9019

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