The Phnom Penh Municipal Court heard the case of a former Takeo provincial military police deputy commander and his girlfriend who are both accused of selling nearly two kilogrammes of methamphetamine to an undercover police officer.
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The Kampot Provincial Administration is preparing a proposal to the Ministry of National Defence through the Army Command to register nearly 30ha of land in Koh Touch commune’s Prek Ampil Village of Bokor town as a live fire training ground for the Kampot military operational sub-region.
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A police officer has been detained for allegedly beating a woman till she bled at a police barricade.
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The Phnom Penh Appeal Court upheld the sentencing of Prime Minister Hun Sen’s cousin Tycoon Dy Proem, 59, and Seng Yean, 62, former deputy director-general of the Ministry of National Assembly-Senate Relation and Inspection’s Inspection Department, who were convicted in absentia ten years ago on charges of bribery and proffering of bribes committed between 2008 and 2009.
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A Phnom Penh court has convicted and sentenced seven former opposition activists in absentia for Facebook posts accusing Prime Minister Hun Sen of hiding Covid-19 deaths in 2020 and other posts about his time as a former Khmer Rouge district commander. Cambodian courts have tried hundreds of activists, former politicians and supporters linked to the CNRP on a raft of charges. Currently, more than 130 defendants are facing trials for charges like incitement.
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The Phnom Penh court of appeal reduced the sentence of three farmers who were given five years in prison for clearing five hectares of protected forestry land and trying to claim it as their own, without approval from the provincial authorities.
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The Ministry of Interior’s General Department of Prisons (GDP) plans to admit Rong Chhun, head of the Cambodia Watchdog Council (CWC), to hospital for surgery on his right eye. The transfer will occur when doctors summon him, according to GDP spokesman Nouth Savna.
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