JUDICIARY, AUTHORITY, AND MILITARY(15th – 19th July 2024)
The National Defense Ministry has demarcated a search and rescue area covering 50 square kilometers where the Z-9 helicopter, piloted by two military officers, went missing on the morning of July 12, 2024.
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court has temporarily frozen the assets of disgraced former Okhna Srey Sina after he was formally charged with the brutal murder of a young couple last month in a crime that shocked Cambodia.
The Supreme Court has sentenced Sothea Arun to 22 years in jail in absentia, a former executive director of Sovann Komar, an NGO, who the authorities have been pursuing for intentional violence, starving or neglecting minors, rape, fraud and embezzlement.
