Law and judiciary
Legal and judicial system
RCAF soldier arrested over murder of officer, Ranger
Authorities in Preah Vihear province on Tuesday arrested a local soldier on suspicion of being involved in the fatal shooting of a police officer and a Forestry Administration ranger on an overnight patrol for illegal loggers early Saturday morning. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/rcaf-soldier-arrested-over-murder-of-officer-ranger-99897/
Jailed Unionists in factory dispute released
Two workers from a garment factory in Kompong Speu province who were charged with a slew of crimes following their attempt last month to break away from the only union operating at their factory were released from jail on Friday, a court official and union ...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/jailed-unionists-in-factory-dispute-released-99777/
Trio holds up gas station, shoots owner, neighbor
Police in Oddar Meanchey province are searching for three armed robbers who made off with about $30,000 in cash on Sunday after holding up a gas station and shooting the owner and her neighbor, a local official said Monday. ...
Buth Kimsay
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/trio-holds-up-gas-station-shoots-owner-neighbor-99771/
Minister vows justice for slain forest rangers
Minister of Environment Say Samal yesterday vowed that those responsible for the murder of two forest rangers shot dead while patrolling a protected forest near Preah Vihear temple Saturday morning will be brought to justice. ...
Chea Takihiro
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17610/minister-vows-justice-for-slain-forest-rangers/
Hun Sen says lawmakers hurled insults before beatings
Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Thursday that the soldiers who violently attacked two CNRP lawmakers last week were only reacting to racial insults, while Interior Ministry spokesman Khieu Sopheak said he would have “used a gun” against the lawmakers. ...
Khuon Narim and Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sen-says-lawmakers-hurled-insults-before-beatings-99524/
Jailed senator denied appeal for release on bail
An opposition senator who has been jailed since August has lost an appeal to be released on bail. He will appeal the bail to the Supreme Court, he said. ...
Socheata Hean
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/jailed-senator-denied-appeal-for-release-on-bail/3036894.html
Land representative’s request to stop trial denied by judge
One of two women claiming to represent 163 families that won access to a swath of land in Sen Sok district after a prolonged dispute failed Wednesday to have her breach of trust and forgery charges thrown out of the Phnom Penh Municipal Court. ...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/land-representatives-request-to-stop-trial-denied-by-judge-99393/
Court denies bail for opposition senator
The Appeal Court on Wednesday rejected a second request by opposition Senator Hong Sok Hour to overturn a municipal court decision to deny him bail after he was arrested in August for presenting a fake border treaty in a video posted to Facebook. ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/appeal-court-denies-bail-for-opposition-senator-hong-sok-hour-99385/
Three men arrested for lawmaker assaults
Three of the men at a pro-CPP protest who beat CNRP lawmakers Nhay Chamroeun and Kong Saphea last week as they tried to leave the National Assembly turned themselves in Tuesday, Interior Ministry spokesman Khieu Sopheak said. ...
Alex Willemyns and Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/three-men-arrested-for-lawmaker-assaults-99237/
Nigerians decry immigration raid at church
About 400 parishioners at the Christian Evangelical International Ministry in Phnom Penh were singing hymns when 15 armed police officers rushed through the doors on Saturday and rounded up all of the Nigerian men present, according to Peter Ike, a preacher’s assistant at the church. ...
Sek Odom and Taylor O'Connell
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/nigerians-decry-immigration-raid-at-church-99082/
Reporters submit complaint over border skirmish
Four journalists who say they were chased by a machete-wielding man on Friday as they attempted to investigate reports of smuggling across the Chambok border checkpoint in Banteay Meanchey province filed a complaint with the provincial court yesterday accusing the man of attempted murder. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/reporters-submit-complaint-over-border-skirmish-99076/
Journalists, NGO workers arrested for extortion
Police in Kompong Thom province arrested 11 people—eight who claimed to be journalists and three who said they were environmental NGO directors—on Sunday for extorting money from truck drivers transporting goods in Prasat Balaing district, officials said Monday. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/journalists-and-ngo-workers-arrested-for-extortion-in-k-thom-99080/
PM calls for crackdown on gambling
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday called for a crackdown on gambling during a speech to mark the beginning of the new academic year in Kampot province. ...
Ven Rathavong and Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17380/pm-calls-for-crackdown-on-gambling/
Reporters, police give wildly different accounts of border row
A border official and a reporter gave drastically different accounts Sunday of events that transpired after a group of journalists was blocked as they attempted to visit the Chambok border checkpoint in Banteay Meanchey province on Friday. ...
Exhibit remembers slain journalists, calls for end to ‘impunity’
Im Chanthy was seven months pregnant when her husband was killed three years ago, his body stuffed in the trunk of his Toyota Camry. ...
Olivia Harlow
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/exhibit-remembers-slain-journalists-calls-for-end-to-impunity-98964/
Former consul to Vietnam sentenced to 3 years in forgery case
Cambodia’s former deputy consul-general to Ho Chi Minh City, who was arrested last year on suspicion of forging documents to allow luxury-grade wood to be exported into Vietnam, was sentenced to three years in prison by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Friday. ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/former-consul-to-vietnam-sentenced-to-3-years-in-forgery-case-98921/
Cash-strapped NEC seeks money
Despite a massive 300 percent increase in its budget next year to prepare for looming elections, the National Election Committee (NEC) says it has barely half the money it needs to do its job and is looking for overseas aid for resources to help. ...
Chea Takihiro
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17295/cash-strapped-nec-seeks-money/
Brit held on fraud charges dumped by lawyer
A British man detained for more than two years in Prey Sar prison on charges of massive fraud has been accused of obstructing his own trial after one of his lawyers dropped the case. In an email yesterday, defendant Greg Fryett pushed back against these ...
Jonathan Cox
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17294/brit-held-on-fraud-charges-dumped-by-lawyer/
Briton’s trial raised in EU parliament, delayed
The high-profile trial of a British entrepreneur charged with fraud was postponed Wednesday after his lawyer cited a conflict of interest and withdrew from the long-running case, two days after a member of the European Parliament used the case to highlight “systematic problems” in Cambodia’s ...
Matt Blomberg and Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/britons-trial-raised-in-eu-parliament-delayed-98653/
Arrested pedophile teacher deported back to UK
A British pedophile who was arrested at the behest of the British Embassy two weeks ago was deported Wednesday evening, an immigration official said Wednesday. ...
Ouch Sony
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/%EF%BB%BF-arrested-pedophile-teacher-deported-back-to-uk-98655/
Pair convicted for defamatory Facebook posts
The wife of an army general and an Information Ministry official were convicted of defamation by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Monday over Facebook posts accusing the general of having an affair with CPP Senator Keo Maly, a claim the lawmaker has denied. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/pair-convicted-for-defamatory-facebook-posts-98381/
Activists to begin daily anti-eviction protests
A few dozen of the staunchest activists from the evicted Boeng Kak, Borei Keila and SOS communities Monday announced that they had began a campaign of daily protests that will last for the next month to call attention to their ongoing land settlement grievances. ...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/activists-to-begin-daily-anti-eviction-protests-98385/
Hun Sen warns Rainsy of fresh legal trouble
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Sunday warned CNRP President Sam Rainsy that he could be prosecuted over the same forgery and incitement case that led to the arrest of opposition Senator Hong Sok Hour in August. ...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/98370-98370/
Union agrees to stop protests; factory to set aside complaint
Demonstrations surrounding the establishment of a new union at a garment factory in Kompong Speu province ended Monday after management dropped their complaint against two jailed workers in exchange for protesters agreeing to return to their jobs, a court official and unionists said. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/union-agrees-to-stop-protests-factory-to-set-aside-complaint-98387/