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Prominent rights monitor questioned over defamation claims
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Monday began questioning a leading human rights campaigner who stands accused of defaming and attempting to coerce two judicial officials over a land dispute in Siem Reap province. ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/prominent-rights-monitor-questioned-over-defamation-claims-88153/
7NG staffer allegedly ‘took $1.5m’ in land scam
A former police officer yesterday faced trial over allegations he scammed more than $1.5 million from his friend and past employer by registering company land in his own name. ...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/7ng-staffer-allegedly-took-15m-land-scam
Court begins Chakrya queries
Reporters and supporters of human rights activist Ny Chakrya were barred from entering Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday, as he sought to avert charges being laid against him in a case described by advocates as “judicial harassment”. ...
Pech Sotheary and Charles Parkinson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/court-begins-chakrya-queries
Authorities to deport convicted British pedophile by week’s end
A British national and convicted pedophile, who served about three quarters of his two-year sentence for child sex abuse, will be deported to the U.K. by the end of the week, an immigration official said Sunday. ...
Chris Mueller
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/authorities-to-deport-convicted-british-pedophile-by-weeks-end-87986/
Convicted ‘terrorist’ pardoned at PM’s request
King Norodom Sihamoni granted a royal pardon to convicted terrorist plotter Sourn Serey Ratha last week, just days before the self-exile was planning to take the final step in turning his dissident group into a bona fide political party. ...
Aun Pheap and Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/convicted-terrorist-pardoned-at-pms-request-87978/
Tycoon sought in brutal attack
A real estate tycoon accused of launching a brutal attack on a well-known TV presenter at a Phnom Penh restaurant is reported to have fled Cambodia after leaked security camera footage of the incident began to circulate on the internet on Wednesday. A warrant has been ...
Sou Vuthy, Buth Reaksmey Kongkea and Charles Parkinson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/tycoon-sought-brutal-attack
Police thwart gang fight during round-up
After receiving numerous complaints about violence and robberies outside a nightclub in Battambang City, police Thursday rounded up 25 suspected criminals, claiming to have prevented an imminent gang brawl. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-thwart-gang-fight-during-round-up-87806/
KNLF ‘terrorists’ in court for ‘treason’
Ten members of the blacklisted Khmer National Liberation Front were tried yesterday at Phnom Penh Municipal Court on treason charges brought on by allegations they had distributed anti-Vietnamese propaganda ahead of a demonstration last year. ...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/knlf-terrorists-court-treason
Dey Krahom leader acquitted of defamation, forgery
Chan Vichet, a representative of the former Dey Krahorm community, whose homes were bulldozed in 2009 to make way for development in Phnom Penh, was acquitted on Friday of defamation and forgery charges brought against him in 2005 by fellow evictees. ...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/dey-krahom-leader-acquitted-of-defamation-forgery-87336/
Man who slapped schoolgirl claims he has mental illness
A man who entered a Phnom Penh high school and slapped a teenager who had been fighting with his daughter told the municipal court on Friday that he was mentally ill and had lied about working at the Council of Ministers, hoping it would protect ...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/man-who-slapped-schoolgirl-claims-he-has-mental-illness-87334/
200 clinics closed in 2015: Dept
The Phnom Penh Municipal Health Department has closed more than 200 illegal dental clinics in the capital in the first six months of the year, and has filed complaints against their owners to the Phnom Penh Municipal Court, health officials said yesterday. ...
Pech Sotheary and Stuart White
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/200-clinics-closed-2015-dept
Factory agrees to pay wages to former workers
A South Korean-owned garment factory bowed to union pressure Thursday and agreed to pay its former workers wages they are owed, following a meeting with the Ministry of Labor. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/factory-agrees-to-pay-wages-to-former-workers-87257/
Agriculture firm fraud case draws to a close
Cambodian-American businessman Richer San, one of four men accused of defrauding a Phnom Penh dentist of $1 million, sat alone at the stand in the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Friday as lawyers delivered their closing arguments. ...
Khuon Narim and Colin Meyn
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/agriculture-firm-fraud-case-draws-to-a-close-87323/
Korea test cheaters arrested
Seventeen young people were charged by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court and released on bail yesterday after they were caught allegedly falsifying documents while taking a Korean language test administered as a precursor to working in South Korea, police said. ...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/korea-test-cheaters-arrested
Ten years for trafficker duo
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday sentenced a woman and a man to 10 years in prison each on drug-trafficking charges after their arrest in Sen Sok district last year. ...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ten-years-trafficker-duo
Family convicted of ‘violence’ over land scuffle
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Thursday convicted a couple and their daughter of using violence against a property owner, although the plaintiff dropped his complaint against them last month. Ly Srea Kheng, 58, has battled tycoon Khun Sear and his eponymous import-export company over a ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/family-convicted-of-violence-over-land-scuffle-86758/
Pre-trial ‘injustice’ on show
Ten Phnom Penh residents, accused by police of having been involved in a car and moto theft ring, yesterday saw their charges dropped for lack of evidence. The decision came after a significant portion of the group had spent more than a year behind bars without ...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pre-trial-injustice-show
Developer’s complaint tossed out
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday ended a long-running land dispute and dropped charges against four Boeung Chhouk community representatives, after the court found no evidence that residents committed violence against local businessman and developer Lao Tonmey. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/developers-complaint-tossed-out
Land case dropped as elusive accuser fails to show
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Tuesday dropped a three-year-old case against a group of villagers in Russei Keo district after their mysterious accuser failed for the fourth time to appear before the court. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/land-case-dropped-as-elusive-accuser-fails-to-show-86347/
Three Chinese jailed over plot to traffic girls
Three Chinese nationals were jailed by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Monday for attempting to smuggle four teenage Cambodian girls to China, while the sentences of two Cambodians involved in the trafficking operation were reduced to time served. ...
Ouch Sony
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/three-chinese-jailed-over-plot-to-traffic-girls-86204/
‘Mastermind’ of drug gang flees; lieutenant charged
The alleged “mastermind” of a multimillion-dollar international drug smuggling gang has fled to Laos, while his lieutenant was charged in Phnom Penh on Monday with manufacturing, trafficking and possessing narcotics, officials said. ...
Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/mastermind-of-drug-gang-flees-lieutenant-charged-86190/
Police raid pizzeria over alleged detention of employee
The foreign owner of a Phnom Penh pizzeria and a wine seller at the restaurant appeared in court Sunday after anti-human trafficking police took both women into custody on Friday in order to investigate accusations that the wine seller was illegally detained by her boss, ...
Saing Soenthrith
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-raid-pizzeria-over-alleged-detention-of-employee-86075/
Verdicts delivered in general’s murder case
In the first verdict handed down in the case against Major General Thong Sarath, who stands accused of masterminding a fellow tycoon’s assassination, the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Monday sentenced him and one of his bodyguards to 30 months in jail for illegal weapons ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/first-verdicts-delivered-in-generals-murder-case-85609/
Drug trial delayed over false statement claims
Two women charged with drug trafficking told the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Friday that their original police statements, which placed them in a trafficking ring, had been falsified by police. ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/drug-trial-delayed-over-false-statement-claims-85494/