Beaten journo preps lawsuit

13 May 2014
The Phnom Penh Post
Communications / Communications policy and administration / Constitution and rights / Crime and law enforcement / Government / Human rights / Law and judiciary / Provincial and local governments / Social development
Cambodian Center for Independent Media / CCIM / Freedom Park / Kaing Tong Ngy / Lay Samean / Long Dimanche / Phnom Penh Municipal Hall / Press Law / VOD / Voice of Democracy

A journalist with Voice of Democracy (VOD) who was badly beaten by security forces at the site of a planned demonstration in the capital earlier this month left for Thailand yesterday for an operation, and plans to file suit against his attackers next week, he said. VOD reporter Lay Samean, 27, was one of several people – including a female journalist and a photographer – attacked by unprovoked Daun Penh district security guards who had begun targeting and accosting observers and members of the press as they waited for an opposition rally near Freedom Park on May 2. Samean was badly beaten on the head, and said yesterday that he was suffering from persistent symptoms and a problem with a molar stemming from the attack. ... Kaing Tong Ngy, a communications officer with the Cambodian Center for Independent Media, which is helping Samean with his complaint, called on those responsible to be held accountable. ... Tong Ngy did not say what charges would be filed, or against whom, and said CCIM was still consulting with legal experts. He also maintained that Samean was displaying his proper press credentials at the time of the attack. ...

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