Law and judiciary

Crime and law enforcement

Illegal Vietnamese fishermen caught in nighttime operation

A group of 13 Vietnamese nationals were apprehended by Cambodian fishermen on Sunday night while illegally fishing off the coast of Kampot province and are being held for repatriation, according to a village representative and the provincial governor. Neak Sen, a representative of a fishing community ...

Hay Pisey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/illegal-vietnamese-fishermen-caught-in-nighttime-operation-58171/

Garment protest trial defendants deny charges

Defendants in a mass trial of 25 men and teenagers accused of joining a string of violent garment worker protests continued to profess their innocence during the second day of hearings at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Tuesday. Twenty-three of the men were arrested in ...

Khy Sovuthy and Eang Mengleng
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/garment-protest-trial-defendants-deny-charges-58166/

Cambodian court again delays trial of 23 jailed protesters

A court in Phnom Penh put off for the second time Tuesday the trial of 23 Cambodians arrested during a deadly worker strike crackdown, drawing criticism from rights groups who said the move was politically motivated. After a five-hour hearing, with hundreds of riot police manning ...

Radio Free Asia News Staff
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/trial-05062014144900.html

CNRP activist detained over political VCDs

Police on Sunday detained a CNRP activist and confiscated 347 political video-CDs that he was transporting to the party’s headquarters in Phnom Penh, police and opposition party officials said Monday. The VCDs showed violent police and military repressions of land and labor activists and last ...

Khuon Narim
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cnrp-activist-detained-over-political-vcds-58127/

Journalists garner support, monks silent in wake of attacks

Condemnation has grown following Friday’s attack on a journalist near Freedom Park as the Ministry of Information joined the U.N. Human Rights Office in denouncing the attacks. On Saturday, the U.N.’s human rights representative in Cambodia, Wan-Hea Lee, called for an investigation into the beating of ...

Kuch Naren and George Wright
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/journalists-garner-support-monks-silent-in-wake-of-attacks-58145/

Two hackers who allegedly targeted Gov’t site charged

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court charged two more alleged members of the hacking group Anonymous Cambodia on Monday, as other members of Anonymous claimed to hack at least four government websites, including that of the National Police. The two men, Keo Sipheng, 26, and Hok Ratana, ...

Eang Mengleng and Joshua Wilwohl
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/two-hackers-who-allegedly-targeted-govt-site-charged-58149/

Trial continues: Workers to gather at court house

Observers expect the trial of 23 people arrested during early January strike demonstrations will not be completed today, due to the number of witnesses who may testify. “I think the trial would take more than the time [available today],” Ham Samrith, senior lawyer for the Community ...

Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/trial-continues-workers-gather-court-house

Twenty-one men detained after strikes seek bail for fifth time

Union activist Vorn Pao and 20 other workers and activists who have been jailed since the violent suppression of garment protests in early January had their request for bail heard for the fifth time on Friday, this time by the Supreme Court. Mr. Pao, the president ...

Khuon Narim
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/twenty-one-men-detained-after-strikes-seek-bail-for-fifth-time-58004/

Telecom official accused of stealing $100,000

The head of the Post and Telecommunications Ministry’s inspection department was arrested Friday and questioned at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Saturday for allegedly having stolen about $100,000 from the ministry over several years, according to Minister Prak Sokhon. He said Chem Sangva was reported ...

Eang Mengleng
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/telecom-official-accused-of-stealing-100000-58043/

Injured to file complaints over crackdown

A monk, an opposition lawmaker-elect and a journalist, all assaulted by Daun Penh district security guards near Freedom Park on Friday, said they are in the process of filing legal complaints against the district forces as they recover from their injuries. “I am planning on filing ...

George Wright
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/injured-to-file-complaints-over-crackdown-58025/

Security dressed down

For months now, Daun Penh district security forces, identifiable by their dark blue uniforms, black motorbike helmets and merciless truncheon swinging, have been unleashed on protesters, opposition and otherwise, as the all-too-willing enforcers of government-approved crackdowns. But as district forces have begun targeting more journalists during ...

Vong Sokheng and Alice Cuddy
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/security-dressed-down

Body of missing journalist found near Angkor Wat

The body of a Canadian journalist who went missing in Siem Reap 10 weeks ago has been found inside the temple complex of Angkor Wat, officials said Thursday. David Walker, 58, disappeared from his guesthouse in the tourist town on Feb. 14, while working on a ...

Sok Khemara
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/body-of-missing-journalist-found-near-angkor-wat/1905369.html

Complaints filed against city official for last week’s violence

Three people have filed separate complaints against a Phnom Penh district official, accusing him of ordering violence in a clash between security forces and bystanders near Freedom Park last week. At least 10 people were injured in clashes last Monday, as opposition member Mu Sochua staged ...

Heng Reaksmey
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/complaints-filed-against-city-official-for-last-weeks-violence/1904463.html

Police make arrest, file complaints in Bavet strike

Police in Svay Rieng province on Tuesday arrested a garment worker for allegedly breaking a car window during a strike that turned violent in Bavet City the day before, and have filed complaints to the provincial court against two union representatives accused of defamation. The arrest ...

Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-make-arrest-file-complaints-in-bavet-strike-57856/

Arrest in UN murder

Police on Tuesday night arrested a 35-year-old man they say confessed to the murder of Dutch national Daphna Beerdsen and the brutal attack on her 19-month-old daughter in a burglary gone awry at their home just off Norodom Boulevard on Monday. National Police spokesman Kirth Chantharith ...

Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/arrest-un-murder

On Labor Day, peaceful protests met with violence

A peaceful Labor Day demonstration of workers calling for better living conditions and independent courts was violently dispersed Thursday morning by district security guards, municipal police and men in plain clothes, who beat protesters, journalists and bystanders with batons, wooden sticks and crude metal poles. Shortly ...

The Cambodia Daily
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/on-labor-day-peaceful-protests-met-with-violence-57897/

Cambodia bans trade unions from marking May Day at capital's Freedom Park

Cambodian authorities on Wednesday refused permission for the 18 opposition-aligned trade unions and associations to celebrate an International Labor Day event on May 1 at the capital’s Freedom Park. “The Phnom Penh Municipality does not allow the trade unions and associations to organize this event at ...

Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-04/30/c_133301779.htm

Village stoning breeds fears

Ever since some 500 people laid siege to the home of traditional healer pov Sovann, dragged him out and brutally stoned him to death over the course of eight hours on Sunday, two opposing sets of fears have gripped members of his community in Takeo ...

Vong Sokheng and Stuart White
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/village-stoning-breeds-fears

Trafficker gets 10 years

The manager of Giant Ocean International, a now-defunct recruitment firm notorious for abuse scandals, was sentenced yesterday to 10 years in jail for trafficking hundreds of Cambodian fishermen to work in slave-like conditions overseas. Taiwanese national Lin Yu-shin, who ran the firm, was arrested in May ...

Buth Reaksmey Kongkea and Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/trafficker-gets-10-years

M’kiri villagers petition over illegal logging

Nearly 200 people from 25 different communities converged on the Mondolkiri Provincial Hall Monday to file complaints and petitions calling for an end to illegal logging and environmental degradation. The action comes two days after armed commune police blocked 16 rights workers and journalists from visiting ...

Ben Sokhean
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/mkiri-villagers-petition-over-illegal-logging-57612/

Cobra house family again accuses security guards of arson

A family locked in a longstanding land dispute with a powerful real estate tycoon claims company guards late on Sunday night once again attempted to burn down their Tuol Kok home. The alleged attempted arson is the latest in a slew of bizarre at­tacks on the ...

Eang Mengleng
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cobra-house-family-again-accuses-security-guards-of-arson-57606/

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