Radio Free Asia reporter to face judge
A Radio Free Asia (RFA) reporter in Ratanakkiri province will be questioned at the provincial court today in relation to claims that he incited villagers to commit crimes against a rubber company that they have been locked in a land dispute with since 2004. Lim Chanlyda, defence lawyer for accused journalist Sok Ratha, also known as Ratha Visal, told the Post yesterday that her client had been accused in 2009 of inciting the ethnic Tumpoun villagers in Lumphat district to rebel against DM Group, which was awarded land there in 2004. …
