Law and judiciary
Crime and law enforcement
Lawmaker’s lawyers ask court not to issue verdict
A CNRP lawmaker’s lawyers asked the Kandal Provincial Court this week not to issue a verdict due Friday in their client’s aiding-and-abetting case, effectively urging the judges to drop the charge. ...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/lawmakers-lawyers-ask-court-not-to-issue-verdict-79680/
Top court denies bail for CNRP official, activist
The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld previous decisions to deny bail to CNRP information department chief Meach Sovannara, who was jailed in November on insurrection charges relating to a July protest led by the opposition that erupted into a brawl between demonstrators and municipal security ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/top-court-denies-bail-for-cnrp-official-activist-79563/
Court delays questioning of anti-dam activist
The Koh Kong Provincial Court has agreed to a request to delay the questioning of an anti-dam activist accused of illegally felling trees to build a community center in the Areng Valley. Ven Vorn—an ethnic Chong who has joined local protests organized by the NGO Mother ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/court-delays-questioning-of-anti-dam-activist-79559/
Recently bailed union leader vows to continue strike activity
A combative union leader who was released on bail last week pending trial on charges of extortion and making threats during a strike last month vowed Wednesday to continue leading his militant brand of industrial action if workers called upon him. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/recently-bailed-union-leader-vows-to-continue-strike-activity-79565/
Kids to get schooled on Traffic Law
High school and university students, considered particularly at risk of road accidents, may soon be taking lessons on the new traffic law if a proposal from the Transport Ministry comes to fruition. Tram Iv Tek, minister of public works and transport, yesterday said that the government ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/kids-get-schooled-traffic-law
Hun Sen acknowledges misstep over HIV outbreak
Prime Minister Hun Sen admitted Tuesday that he made an error in judgment when he doubted the veracity of a growing HIV outbreak in Battambang province’s Roka commune in December. ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sen-acknowledges-misstep-over-hiv-outbreak-79466/
Prime minister diagnoses NGOs with ‘main character syndrome’
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Tuesday chided a group of NGOs who boycotted a seminar on a pair of proposed election laws, saying the groups suffered from “main character syndrome.” ...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/prime-minister-diagnoses-ngos-with-main-character-syndrome-79458/
Court questions General charged in corruption case
A military general charged in connection with a high-profile corruption scandal at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court, which led to the removal of its top judge last month, on Tuesday denied the allegations against him after being questioned at the court. ...
Ouch Sony
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/court-questions-general-charged-in-corruption-case-79472/
Police arrest four smuggling crystal meth from Laos
Police arrested four men in Phnom Penh’s Chbar Ampov district on Sunday on suspicion of smuggling drugs from Laos, confiscating more than half a kilogram of crystal methamphetamine in the bust, officials said Monday. ...
Saing Soenthrith
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-arrest-four-smuggling-crystal-meth-from-laos-79356/
In court, kidney trader denies running transplant enterprise
A woman accused of organ trafficking was tried at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Monday for allegedly persuading her two cousins and a neighbor to sell their kidneys in Thailand last year. Anti-human trafficking police arrested Nhem Sinuon, 29, in Phnom Penh’s Chroy Changva district ...
TVK cameraman nabbed after encounter with police official
A cameraman for national television broadcaster TVK was arrested on Saturday on direct orders from Deputy National Police Chief Mok Chito for using a fake police license plate and illegally possessing a police uniform and handgun, officials said Sunday. ...
Saing Soenthrith
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/tvk-cameraman-nabbed-after-encounter-with-police-official-79302/
Drug sting snares policeman’s son, commune council member
The son of a police lieutenant colonel and a member of a commune council were among four people arrested Thursday in Kompong Thom province for dealing drugs and were remanded in custody, a court prosecutor said Friday. ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/drug-sting-snares-policemans-son-commune-council-member-79248/
Orphanage director claims child sex case fabricated
The former chief of anti-pedophile NGO Action Pour Les Enfants (APLE), who was jailed Friday by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on charges of indecently assaulting children, claimed the allegations were fabricated by APLE founder Thierry Darnaudet as revenge for reporting his ex-boss to authorities ...
Simon Henderson and Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/orphanage-director-claims-child-sex-case-fabricated-79241/
Tycoon’s parents seek bail again
After breaking the conditions of their bail last month, causing public outrage from Prime Minster Hun Sen, the parents of fugitive businessman Thong Sarath are attempting to use their son’s lucrative development company to secure bail for the second time, their lawyer said yesterday. . ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/tycoons-parents-seek-bail-again
Group’s prison visit curtailed
In a move seemingly incongruent with the government’s plans to offer clemency to a number of female inmates on International Women’s Day on Sunday, a local rights group announced yesterday that new restrictions introduced by authorities have forced them to cancel prison activities marking the ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/groups-prison-visit-curtailed
Montagnard minder tells of ordeal in Vietnam
As police closed in on Montagnard asylum seekers hiding in the forests of Ratanakkiri province last week, Klan Hoeun, 42, said Wednesday that he knew he had to at least try to get the group to Phnom Penh, to safety. ...
Aun Pheap and Chris Mueller
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/montagnard-minder-tells-of-ordeal-in-vietnam-79137/
Jailed ex-monk questioned over third charge
A defrocked monk who was handed a one-year jail sentence for obstructing officials during a wave of arrests of activists and opposition figures in Phnom Penh last year was on Wednesday questioned over an additional charge of “joining a criminal association,” a human rights monitor ...
Ouch Sony
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/jailed-ex-monk-questioned-over-third-charge-79147/
CNRP ‘optimistic’ that official will be released
Following a bail hearing for CNRP information department chief Meach Sovannara at the Supreme Court on Wednesday, the opposition party’s spokesman said he was “optimistic” that the court would decide to release the official when it announces a verdict on March 11. ...
Khy Sovuthy and Ouch Sony
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cnrp-optimistic-that-official-will-be-released-79153/
Nephew of general remains free after shooting
The Tbong Khmum Provincial Court has not issued an arrest warrant for the nephew of a senior Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) general despite police naming him as the suspect in the shooting of another man more than five months ago, according to officials and ...
Mech Dara and Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/nephew-of-general-remains-free-after-shooting-79145/
On Tonle Sap lake, another attack over fishing
The body of a fisherman was discovered floating in the Tonle Sap lake in Kompong Chhnang province’s Boribor district on Tuesday after a vicious boating attack, police said Wednesday, in what is the fourth such incident on the lake this year. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/on-tonle-sap-lake-another-attack-over-fishing-79139/
Five caught trying to rob wing shop of thousands
Two Nigerians and three Cambodians were arrested Wednesday for attempting to rob $2,000 from a mobile-payment kiosk in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district, police said. ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/five-caught-trying-to-rob-wing-shop-of-thousands-79149/
Police chief berates Kompong Speu force over Mercedes shooter
National Police chief Neth Savoeun on Tuesday rebuked police in Kompong Speu province for allowing a man in a Mercedes-Benz SUV to escape after he fired a handgun 33 times in the air in apparent protest at a $3 speeding fine. ...
South Koreans nabbed in Siem Reap over voIP scam
Seven South Korean nationals were arrested in Siem Reap province Monday on suspicion of attempting to extort money from foreigners through Voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP, after a further six were detained for allegedly committing the same crime last month, an immigration official said ...
Saing Soenthrith
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/south-koreans-n
Tuk-tuk groups clash with metal pipes, chains
Two rival groups of tuk-tuk drivers clashed Monday evening in front of Phnom Penh’s railway station in Daun Penh district, beating each other with metal pipes and chains over a dispute regarding passengers, police said Tuesday. ...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/tuk-tuk-groups-clash-with-metal-pipes-chains-79047/