Judiciary, Authority and Military (14th – 18th August, 2023)
A provincial court sentenced 10 activists to one year in jail in a case that stems from several long-running land disputes that have triggered protests in Cambodia’s southwestern Koh Kong province.
The Anti-Human Trafficking and Juvenile Protection Department of the National Police rescued 12 women from cafes offering sex services after raiding four cafés in Phnom Penh.
A Phnom Penh Municipal Court judge decided to end the first day of the trial of Candlelight Party Vice President Thach Setha, early because of Setha’s “bad mood.”
General Neth Savoeun, General Commissioner of the National Police, has stated that police have arrested 6 criminals involved in an armed raid on a Siem Reap dentist clinic that freed a Chinese criminal.
