Details case of media violation in Kandal

Location Kandal
Date of Event Apr 10, 2022
Last Update Apr 10, 2022
# of journalist(s) forced to sign agreements pledging they would stop their reporting activities 1
Summary

Traffic police threatened citizen journalist Suon Vutha with arrest and legal action, after he took videos of police taking bribes to close their eyes on breaches of the traffic law at a checkpoint in Kandal's Leuk Daek district. Vutha was detained for questioning for over an hour. Police officers asked to see his "mission letter" and ID, and ordered him to delete the videos of the bribery he had taken and to sign an agreement to stop, which Vutha did in order to be released.

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