Reporters Without Borders (RSF) joins 39 other organisations in condemning the violent arrests of five journalists who were covering a huge deforestation operation in southern Cambodia, and calls on the Cambodian government to guarantee journalistic freedom.
Five VOD journalists and four Khmer Thavrak activists documenting a forest clearing in Phnom Tamao were harassed by officers from the prime minister's bodyguard unit.
Conservationists Look for ‘Divine Intervention’ From Forest Development. A Khmer-language version of this story is available at Southeast Asia Globe. A two-lane dirt road truncates the northeastern tree line of Phnom Tamao Forest, marking the start of a housing complex on.