Kandal provincial police have arrested 30 people after a clash with protesters on September 12 over a land dispute at the new Phnom Penh International Airport construction site in Kandal Stung district’s Boeung Khyang commune.
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A senior Ratanakiri provincial military police officer is in jail after using violence on a cremator, then publicly insulting the provincial governor on Facebook on September 6.
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Phnom Penh Municipal Court sentenced the Ministry of Justice undersecretary of state, Seng Sovannara to two years and six months in prison over grabbing 1,000 hectares of land in Mondulkiri province between 2018 and last year.
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Kampong Chhnang Provincial Court questioned four land activists over a complaint of attempted murder and intentional damage after the group allegedly used knives to damage fishing nets in Kampong Tralach district’s Taches commune when the plaintiff went fishing in a part of the lake they considered to be a protected site. The activists maintain part of the lake, Boeng Pur, is a protected site, though local authorities disagree.
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An incitement case against an opposition official’s 17-year-old son, which U.N. experts have criticized as “disturbing,” will head to trial on September 29, the boy’s lawyer said.
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The Phnom Penh Appeal Court upheld the seven-year jail sentence imposed by a lower court on former Khmer National Liberation Front member, Thuy Vy, 33, accused of conspiring with the former opposition leader Sam Rainsy to stage a military coup against the government in 2019.
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Kratie provincial authorities have decided to confiscate about 500 hectares in Chet Borei district’s Chang Krang commune to be returned as state property after the land was illegally taken over by land grabbers.
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