Associated Press
A Cambodian court Friday acquitted a journalist for U.S.-based Radio Free Asia on charges that he spread false information when reporting an alleged corruption case.
Takeo provincial court judge Cheng Bunly dropped the charges against radio reporter Sok Serey for a 2008 broadcast about a dispute between a group of villagers and a leader of the ethnic Cham community, who are mostly Muslims.
RFA, based in Washington D.C. and funded by the U.S. government, broadcasts to Asian countries where freedom of the press is regarded as limited or nonexistent.
In a complaint filed in late 2008, about 200 villagers of the ethnic minority accused their leader of stealing 10 million riel ($2,400) from a community project. Sok Serey was charged with spreading disinformation when he broadcast the story.
Sok Serey was not arrested and was allowed to continue reporting.
Three other people, a villager and two human rights activists from the Cambodian Center for Human Rights, also were acquitted on disinformation charges.
In June 2009, a Cambodian editor, whose newspaper published stories alleging corruption in the office of a senior government official, was found guilty of circulating disinformation and sentenced to a year in jail.
Takeo province is about 65 kilometers (40 miles) south of the capital Phnom Penh.
Takeo provincial court judge Cheng Bunly dropped the charges against radio reporter Sok Serey for a 2008 broadcast about a dispute between a group of villagers and a leader of the ethnic Cham community, who are mostly Muslims.
RFA, based in Washington D.C. and funded by the U.S. government, broadcasts to Asian countries where freedom of the press is regarded as limited or nonexistent.
In a complaint filed in late 2008, about 200 villagers of the ethnic minority accused their leader of stealing 10 million riel ($2,400) from a community project. Sok Serey was charged with spreading disinformation when he broadcast the story.
Sok Serey was not arrested and was allowed to continue reporting.
Three other people, a villager and two human rights activists from the Cambodian Center for Human Rights, also were acquitted on disinformation charges.
In June 2009, a Cambodian editor, whose newspaper published stories alleging corruption in the office of a senior government official, was found guilty of circulating disinformation and sentenced to a year in jail.
Takeo province is about 65 kilometers (40 miles) south of the capital Phnom Penh.
12 comments:
Yes, Communist People Party ( CPP ) moving Cambodia in the wrong direction. We need to change these gangsters regime. Why not calling million Khmers inside to remove Saddam Hun Sen's regime out of power. I am sure Khmers can do that, we have 14 million in Cambodia. Peoples you have no choice but to strike them back when they oppress you and your family. We out side will support you the best we can when all Khmers in the country stand up for yourself.
Communist People Party ( CPP ) don't care basic rights and human rights in Cambodia. Rise up people let million march to National Assembly or Hun Sen's home and tell him to step down before he get hang like his older brother in IRAQ.
Phnom Penh Municipal Court to open another RFA case in March 2010.
It seems that RFA is busy with fixing its mistakes.
Thanks to court officials for acquitting Radio Free Asia of spreading false information.
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Keat Chhon
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be careful with show like this. although, it is a kind of freedom of expression, the thing we have to be mindful of is the imbalancing of the news itself i.e. bias reporting, yes!
one thing the USA can teach this radia free asia if the code of ethics! don't be imbalance and bias toward the people and country of cambodia!
people are subjective in nature. this is where the code of professional ethics comes to play a role to control such heineous human behavior, really!
Ohh, my Cambodian ball got hurt because I mastubate too much all day long. The doctor said because I am ethnic Cambodian, I will keep jacking off my dick until I got nut cancer. Fuck off to be Scambodian
So, justice can be had, at times, in the Cambodian court system.
4:44AM!
Fuck off to your Mother.
hahahahahahahahahahahahaha !
U.S.A.
How can the justice system in Cambodia be respected or trusted. I hope this is not a political stunt to gain trust from internal and international community to prove that the court is doing a good job.
The system is really inconsistent and changing like weather.
No matter what the system's credibility has been proving to be getting worse. The more weird thing they try to show the more true color clearly appears.
10:00AM HUN SEN, was khmer viet minh or"khmer rouge" don't expect munch from him.cambodia is moving forward to joint communist Indochina
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