On 28 January 2023, immigration officials in Kandal Province’s Leuk Dek district detained Association of Youth Journalists for Peace Nhim Sorn Sida for several hours after he took a picture of an individual smuggling cigarettes and reported the situation to the authorities. His phone was confiscated and he was taken to the police station, where he was questioned for not having a mission letter and not telling the officials about the pictures. Sorn Sida was eventually released after being forced to thumbprint a pledge not to leak the pictures to the media.