Law and judiciary

Crime and law enforcement

Illegal homemade fishing bomb injures five

Five people were injured Monday when a homemade bomb destined for illegal fishing exploded as it was being assembled in Battambang province’s Kamrieng district, police said. ...

Saing Soenthrith
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/illegal-homemade-fishing-bomb-injures-five-77670/

Freedom of prisoner offered for cash: police

A 52-year-old woman was charged with fraud by the Tbong Khmum Provincial Court on Saturday for allegedly cheating a man out of more than $15,000 by promising to use the money and her connections to secure the release of his son from prison, police said ...

Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/freedom-prisoner-offered-cash-police

British fraudster’s appeal dismissed by court

The Supreme Court on Friday rejected the latest appeal by jailed British businessman Gregg Fry­ett to have his trial for fraud delayed because he failed to file his appeal request within the permitted timeframe. ...

Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/british-fraudsters-appeal-dismissed-by-court-77554/

Court charges union leader with making threat, extortion

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Thursday charged an independent union leader with making a threat accompanied by extortion after he was arrested with 51 bamboo poles while leading a strike of about 100 garment workers on Tuesday. According to Article 232 of the Criminal ...

Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/court-charges-union-leader-with-making-threat-extortion-77471/

Pagoda rejects city’s claims of violence

The head monks of Phnom Penh’s Wat Samakki Raingsey on Tuesday drafted a letter rebutting City Hall’s claims of illicit and immoral behavior at the pagoda, which has drawn the government’s ire over the past year by supporting evicted villagers from across the country. ...

Mench Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/pagoda-rejects-citys-claims-of-violence-77350/

Pagoda rejects city’s claims of violence

The head monks of Phnom Penh’s Wat Samakki Raingsey on Tuesday drafted a letter rebutting City Hall’s claims of illicit and immoral behavior at the pagoda, which has drawn the government’s ire over the past year by supporting evicted villagers from across the country. ...

Mench Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/pagoda-rejects-citys-claims-of-violence-77350/

Justice still sought for Vichea

On the 11th anniversary of labour leader Chea Vichea’s assassination yesterday, about 200 people attended a memorial service as many continued to call on authorities to find and arrest those responsible for Vichea’s 2004 murder. Opposition party leaders Sam Rainsy and Kem Sokha, along with the ...

Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/justice-still-sought-vichea

Inmates beat guard at Kompong Speu Provincial Prison

Four inmates at Kompong Speu’s provincial prison attacked a guard on Wednesday, repeatedly punching him in the face, an official said Thursday. ...

Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/inmates-beat-guard-at-kompong-speu-provincial-prison-76573/

Police seize weapons from fugitive general’s homes

A day after the Appeal Court denied bail to the parents of fugitive defense ministry official Thong Sarath, municipal police and court officials Wednesday searched three residences belonging to the family and seized three AK-47 rifles at one of the homes.​ ...

Hay Pisey
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-seize-weapons-from-fugitive-generals-homes-76515/

Where squalor’s the norm

Abuse, discrimination, exploitation and corruption are endemic in Cambodia’s prisons, spurred on by judicial and penal systems “driven by nepotism”, according to a new report from local rights group Licadho. The report, Rights at a Price: Life Inside Cambodia’s Prisons, which was released yesterday, details a ...

Alice Cuddy and May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/where-squalors-norm

PMs talk migration, statues

The shooting of a Cambodian woman by Thai soldiers was left off the agenda during recent talks between Cambodia and Thailand’s prime ministers, which instead focused on issuing migrants passports and the ownership of ancient treasures. Prime Minister Hun Sen and his Thai counterpart General Prayuth ...

Sen David and Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pms-talk-migration-statues

Interpol, neighboring countries help arrest the Cambodian fugitive tycoon

Interpol and Cambodia’s neighboring countries have currently searched for fugitive tycoon Thong Sarath, who is believed to be the mastermind behind assassination of tycoon Ung Meng Cheu who was gunned down last month in Phnom Penh, Mak Chito, chief of central justice at Interior Ministry’s ...

The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/interpol-neighboring-countries-help-arrest-the-cambodian-fugitive-tycoon-7879

CCIM reporter’s case dropped

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court has dismissed without any explanation a lawsuit filed by the Cambodian Center for Independent Media (CCIM) after one of its reporters was viciously attacked by Daun Penh district security guards in May. Lay Samean, a 27-year-old reporter for CCIM’s Voice of ...

Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ccim-reporters-case-dropped

Cambodia seeks neighbors'cooperation to hunt for tycoon behind businessman's murder

The Cambodian authorities have asked its neighboring countries to help hunt for real estate tycoon Thong Sarath, who is wanted for ordering the murder of a prominent businessman last month, National Police Chief Gen. Neth Savoeun said Friday. ...

Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/141212/cambodia-seeks-neighborscooperation-hunt-tycoon-behind-busin

CNRP lawmaker plans to visit controversial detention center

Opposition CNRP lawmaker Eng Chhay Eang says he will visit Phnom Penh’s Prey Speu social affairs center today to investigate its controversial treatment of detainees following the death of a recent charge. ...

Ouch Sony and Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cnrp-lawmaker-plans-to-visit-controversial-detention-center-74001/

Tycoon’s widow says police have ‘asked us nothing’

The wife of slain businessman Eng Meng Cheu, Tang Kim Chheng, has barely been involved in the investigation of her husband’s murder, despite police having charged multiple suspects, she said in an interview yesterday. ...

Taing Vida
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/tycoons-widow-says-police-have-asked-us-nothing

Police suspended over man’s death during cockfight raid

Six police officers in Tbong Khmum province who opened fire during a raid on an illegal cockfight that left a man dead were suspended from duty Wednesday, according to a provincial police official. Chhay Oeun, 25, was shot dead on November 25 after being hit in ...

Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-suspended-over-mans-death-during-cockfight-raid-73991/

Interpol joins hunt for general wanted over tycoon’s murder

Interior Ministry officials said Tuesday that Thong Sarath, a senior military officer wanted for coordinating the murder of a prominent businessman in Phnom Penh last month, has likely fled the country, leading police to call on Interpol to help track him down. Chhay Sinarith, director ...

Mech Dara and Alex Consiglio
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/interpol-joins-hunt-for-general-wanted-over-tycoons-murder-73922/

Records refute city’s claim of hospital visits

Staff at the Phnom Penh Municipal Referral Hospital said Tuesday that they had no record of a recent visit from a man who died late last month at the Prey Speu social affairs center, contradicting claims made by a city official. Both a file search by ...

Zsombor Peter and Ouch Sony
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/records-refute-citys-claim-of-hospital-visits-73915/

Police hunt for more people behind a tycoon’s death

Phnom Penh police are hunting for another four suspects for being behind the assassination of tycoon Ung Meng Cheu who was gunned down on November 22 in Chamkar Morn district. ...

The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/police-hunt-for-more-people-behind-a-tycoon%E2%80%99s-death-7822

Kratie court frees two men accused of killing reporter

The Kratie Provincial Court has freed on bail two of three men arrested for the October slaying of 49-year-old reporter Taing Try after the third man told the court that he carried out the murder on his own, the court’s chief prosecutor said Sunday. Taing Try, ...

Saing Soenthrith
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/kratie-court-frees-two-men-accused-of-killing-reporter-73750/

Cambodia: death highlights detention center abuses

The Cambodian government should promptly close all centers arbitrarily detaining people outside the criminal justice system, Licadho and Human Rights Watch said today. The abusive nature of these centers was highlighted by the death on November 26, 2014, of a man who was arbitrarily detained ...

Human Rights Watch News Staff
http://www.hrw.org/news/2014/12/06/cambodia-death-highlights-detention-center-abuses

Tycoon's four bodyguards charged with intentional murder

Four bodyguards of the fugitive Thong Sarath were charged with intentional murder and conspiracy in the death of tycoon Ung Meng Cheu who was shot dead last month when he had stepped out of his vehicle. Seang Veasna, Ly Sao, Meas Sambath and Koy Chanthol were ...

The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/tycoons-four-bodyguards-charged-with-intentional-murder-7790

Tycoon Thong Sarath mastermind in Ung Meng Cheu's killing: Police

Phnom  Penh police arrested Wednesday night the wife, and the parents of tycoon Thong Sarath as well as some people who work in his house for being behind the killing of Ung Meng Cheu who was shot dead in the center of Phnom Penh. ...

The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/tycoon-thong-sarath-mastermind-in-ung-meng-cheus-killing:-police-7782

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