More R’kiri Journalists Threatened Amid Illegal Timber Trade
Just two weeks after a journalist’s bludgeoned corpse was discovered in Ratanakkiri province, a human rights group yesterday identified two more recent cases of violence or intimidation against reporters in the northeastern province.
The report from Adhoc said the pressure from local journalists has occurred alongside an increase in the illegal trade of timber across the province’s frontier with Vietnam. …
On Tuesday evening, Ek Sokhunthy, 42, a journalist for the national Taprum newspaper, claims he was attacked in his home in Andong Meas district’s Malik commune by a local police officer and two of his neighbors. …
