By P.B.
Source: Cambodge Soir Hebdo
Translated from French by Alain de Veng for KI-Media
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While he was taking pictures at a market, the reporter was assaulted by several individuals.
Vong Thou, a reporter for the Rasmei Kampuchea newspaper in Banteay Meanchey, was beaten up at the beginning of the week by owners of gambling parlors while he was trying to take pictures of Yuki, a gambling that is very popular in Cambodia, especially at the Kbal Spean market in Poipet.
The reporter was severely injured on his head and his face. The cops had already arrested two of the assailants and Vong Thou brought up a lawsuit to the provincial court, accusing his assailants of murder attempt.
In a communiqué issued on 02 March, the Club of Cambodian Journalists [CCJ] considers the violence as a serious attack on the freedom of the press: “We call on the justice [system] and the police to arrest the authors of the attack, and to sentence them according to the law,” the CCJ indicated.
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