Payment demanded for journalist’s death
A journalist murdered in Ratanakkiri last week took a call from his accused killer on the night of his disappearance, his family has claimed in a complaint to the rights group Adhoc. Ken Sovann, 63, the mother of slain journalist Hang Serei Oudom, whose body was found in his car in O’Chum district last Tuesday, will lodge the same complaint with the provincial court today, asking for US$100,000 compensation and demanding that those responsible, including accomplices, be punished. ... Military police captain An Bunheng, also known as Eng, and his wife Sim Vy, from Banlung town, were charged on Sunday with the premeditated murder of Oudom, a journalist with theVorakchun Khmer newspaper, and ordered into pre-trial detention. ... Defence lawyer Tep Monycheath, however, said police did not have enough evidence to convict his clients.
