Appeal Court on Tuesday upheld the provincial court’s guilty verdict against a journalist who criticized the government’s use of Chinese-made COVID-19 vaccines.
The Pursat Provincial Court on Thursday charged four journalists working as information agents for the National Police with fraud for allegedly extorting money from the owner of a gasoline station in Bakan district.
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court will announce on August 30 its verdict against two Radio Free Asia journalists charged with espionage, it said this morning.
A former Radio Free Asia journalist on trial for espionage was accused on Friday of delivering secret information to the U.S. Embassy. Uon Chhin and Yeang Sothearin worked for RFA’s Khmer-language news service until the U.S.-funded media outlet shut its Phnom Penh bureau on September 12, 2017, citing government pressure and the forced closure of FM radio stations carrying its broadcasts.
Rights groups urged the Phnom Penh Municipal Court to dismiss the espionage cases against two former Radio Free Asia journalists, who are set to stand trial on Friday.
The Preah Sihanouk Provincial Court has charged two journalists and five land protestors with intentional violence and incitement to commit a felony. Court spokesman Lim…