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Media fixer Rath Rott Mony speaks about his time in a Phnom Penh prison on Saturday, after serving a two-year conviction for incitement. Panha Chhorpoan

Released RT media fixer shifts focus to his retrial, uniting with exiled family

15 Dec 2020 4:32 PM|

Rath Rott Mony sits at a Phnom Penh café over the weekend, dressed in a blue shirt and grey trousers – gone are the orange prison overalls. The media fixer and translator was released from prison on Friday.

Incitement charges against former Cambodia Daily reporters Aun Pheap (above) and Zsombor Peter for reporting a story in Ratanakkiri province in 2017 were dropped on Tuesday after the plaintiff withdrew the complaint.

Case against Cambodia Daily reporters withdrawn but press freedom attacks persist

27 Nov 2020 3:59 PM|
Khuon Narim|

Former Cambodia Daily reporter Aun Pheap is relieved that an incitement case against him and reporting colleague Zsombor Peter was withdrawn by a Ratanakkiri plaintiff…

Newspaper publisher Ros Sokhet arrives at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on November 11, where he was sentenced to 18 months for incitement. Panha Chhorpoan

Another journalist convicted for incitement, sentenced to 18 months

11 Nov 2020 7:59 PM|
Khuon Narim|

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court has convicted and sentenced newspaper publisher Ros Sokhet to 18 months in prison for using sensational language in Facebook posts…

Photographers and cameramen surround Hungarian Foreign Affairs Minister Peter Szijjarto at the opening of the Hungarian Embassy office in Phnom Penh on November 3. Panha Chhorpoan

More than 600 people, including journalists, test negative for Covid-19

5 Nov 2020 8:50 PM|
Khy Sovuthy|

More than 600 people, including dozens of journalists who covered the state visit of the Covid-19 positive Hungarian Foreign Affairs Minister on November 3, had…

Radio station owner Sok Oudom is escorted by police as he leaves the Kampong Chhnang Provincial Court where he was tried on November 3. Khuon Narim

Kampong Chhnang Journalist Denies Inciting Villagers Against Military

4 Nov 2020 12:00 PM|
Khuon Narim|

KAMPONG CHHNANG PROVINCE -- The owner of a provincial radio station, Sok Oudom, maintained he had not incited villagers in Kampong Chhnang province against the…

Former RFA journalists Yeang Sothearin, left, and Uon Chhin, right, and RT fixer Rath Rott Mony, center, leave the Supreme Court in Phnom Penh after a hearing on July 1. Panha Chhorpoan

Call for journalists’ rights to be respected met with government backlash

3 Nov 2020 9:23 PM|
Khy Sovuthy|

More than 50 nongovernmental organizations released a joint statement on Monday declaring their concern for journalists in the wake of the government’s ongoing harassment of…