Law and judiciary
Lawyers vote in wake of damning report
The Bar Association of the Kingdom of Cambodia (BAKC) will hold its eighth election today at its headquarters in Sen Sok district. ...
Tin Sokhavuth
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/16807/lawyers-vote-in-wake-of-damning-report/
Official facing trial over Facebook post
An Information Ministry official has been charged with defamation over a Facebook post accusing a CPP senator of being the mistress of a military general, and has been summoned to trial on Monday. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/official-facing-trial-over-facebook-post-97330/
Cambodian health worker blamed in HIV spread will be tried next week
An unlicensed health worker charged in Cambodia with murder and other crimes after allegedly causing a mass HIV infection by treating patients with reused needles will be brought to trial next week, sources said. ...
Hum Chamroeum
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/tried-10152015165549.html
Police search for final suspect in commune chief beating case
Police in Svay Rieng province said Wednesday that they were still searching for one of two men suspected in a violent attack on an elderly commune chief that stemmed from a drunken fight on Saturday. ...
Buth Kimsay
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-search-for-final-suspect-in-commune-chief-beating-case-97256/
Draft statistics law approved by assembly
A new law on the collection and dissemination of statistical data is set to be put to a vote at the National Assembly later this year after being approved by a parliamentary commission Wednesday. ...
Ouch Sony and Peter Ford
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/draft-statistics-law-approved-by-assembly-97242/
‘Free market’ no excuse for price gouging: CNRP
Despite Prime Minister Hun Sen’s request for bus owners and cab drivers to not hike prices over the Pchum Ben holiday, passengers were subjected to a familiar price bump this week. ...
Chea Takihiro and Srey Kunmeth
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/16770/---free-market----no-excuse-for-price-gouging--cnrp/
International organization condemns ‘harassment’ of rights work
The Geneva-based Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders has appealed to the public to urge Cambodian authorities to end their “judicial harassment” of prominent human rights advocate Ny Chakrya, who stands charged with public defamation and attempting to coerce court officials. ...
Kang Sothear and Taylor O'Connell
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/international-organization-condemns-harassment-of-rights-work-97165/
Festival traffic death toll holds steady
The number of traffic fatalities during the 2015 Pchum Ben festival was nearly the same as last year’s, dropping just three percent.34 people were killed in road crashes between October 10 and 12, one fewer than the 35 killed during the three-day holiday in 2014. ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/festival-traffic-death-toll-holds-steady
Appeal court extends Pedophile’s sentence
Philippe Broaly, the former French judge and child-protection NGO director who was convicted in May for sexually assaulting boys in his care, had his sentence extended to three years by the Appeal Court on Friday, according to anti-pedophile NGO Action Pour Les Enfants (APLE). ...
Peter Ford
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/appeal-court-extends-pedophiles-sentence-97103/
Court acquits land broker in $2.5m fraud case
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Friday acquitted a land broker of allegedly defrauding a businessman out of $2.5 million over a 9,000-hectare economic land concession (ELC) in Mondolkiri province that was eventually revoked by the government. ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/court-acquits-land-broker-in-2-5m-fraud-case-97086/
Women get five years for smuggling attempt
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Friday sentenced two Vietnamese women to five years in prison for attempting to send pseudoephedrine—a common precursor in the synthesis of methamphetamine—to Australia in a box of bras. ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/women-get-five-years-for-smuggling-attempt-97088/
Robbers’ terms made concurrent
Both Prum Chan Samnang, a 20-year-old former Smart Axiata employee, and Phy Phirum, a 20-year-old air conditioning technician, were lucky enough to receive a rare “consolidation of sentences” yesterday at Phnom Penh Municipal Court. ...
Tin Sokhavuth
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/16679/robbers----terms-made-concurrent/
Court to check on origins of senator’s fake border treaty
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court decided Wednesday to reinvestigate the origins of the doctored treaty that provided the impetus for the arrest of opposition Senator Hong Sok Hour, after the senator’s lawyer told the court that his client did not forge it. ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/court-to-check-on-origins-of%E2%80%88senators-fake-border-treaty-96846/
Court lets fugitive club owner walk free
A deputy prosecutor at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court has decided not to pursue criminal charges against a fugitive nightclub owner who police say is liable for the deaths of six people killed by a fire at the establishment on September 7. ...
Buth Kimsay
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/court-lets-fugitive-club-owner-walk-free-96837/
New panels to reduce road deaths
The National Road Safety Committee (NRSC) yesterday pledged to cut deaths on Cambodia’s roads by 50 per cent by 2020, with two new sub-commissions set to be established to help reach that goal. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-panels-reduce-road-deaths
Montagnards elect to return to Vietnam, despite quest for asylum in Cambodia
Two dozen ethnic Montagnard Christians who fled Vietnam earlier this year to seek refuge in Cambodia from alleged persecution have volunteered to return home, frustrated with long waits and the dim prospects of being granted asylum, a police official and rights activist in northeastern Cambodia ...
Ratha Visal and Samean Yun
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/montagnards-elect-to-return-to-vietnam-despite-quest-for-asylum-in-cambodia-10072015142002.html
Cambodian opposition senator's trial postponed indefinitely
Cambodia’s Phnom Penh Municipal Court has indefinitely postponed the trial on charges of “forgery and incitement” of jailed opposition senator Hong Sok Hour, adjourning again on Wednesday after proceedings resumed following an earlier postponement on Oct. 2. ...
Morm Moniroth
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/postponed-10072015155917.html
Koh Kong court detains a forestry activist over forestry crime
The Koh Kong provincial court today decided to detain a forestry activist for illegally collecting product and sub-product of forest. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/koh-kong-court-detains-a-forestry-activist-over-forestry-crime-9019
Vietnamese man arrested for smuggling ivory, tiger claws haul
A Vietnamese national was charged with smuggling animal parts Tuesday after he was caught with 43 kg of ivory at Siem Reap International Airport on Sunday night, officials said. ...
NGO law ‘obstacle to development goals’
Civil society organizations yesterday expressed concern about the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set by the United Nations last month, which they said would be hard to achieve under the new Law on Associations and NGOs (LANGO). ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/16582/ngo-law----obstacle-to-development-goals---/
Hope for ‘bomb threat’ student
Interior Minister Sar Kheng is seeking the legal means to engineer the acquittal of a student who threatened in a Facebook post to bomb a graduation ceremony he was scheduled to attend.The student, Tao Savoeun, wrote a letter to the minister on Monday, apologising and ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hope-bomb-threat-student
Consul’s trial concludes
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday concluded the trial of a former consular official with the Foreign Ministry accused of falsifying government documents to facilitate the sale of millions of dollars’ worth of luxury timber to Vietnam when he was stationed in Ho Chi Minh ...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/consuls-trial-concludes
Hundreds of minority villagers seek M’kiri governor’s ouster
A group of 900 Bunong villagers are seeking the removal of the governor of Mondolkiri, complaining in a petition that was submitted to the government Monday that he does not respect the rights of ethnic minorities in the province. ...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hundreds-of-minority-villagers-seek-mkiri-governors-ouster-96510/
On Tonle sap, Vietnamese families face mass eviction
The Kompong Chhnang provincial government is in the process of evicting about 1,000 mostly Vietnamese families who live in the floating villages on the Tonle Sap river near the provincial capital, moving them up the river as part of a five-year plan to beautify the ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/on-tonle-sap-vietnamese-families-face-mass-eviction-96504/