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World Press Bashing Day Coming?

How cynical can the Cambodian authorities be? On the day before the World Press Freedom Day, VOD journalist Lay Samean was beaten unconscious by auxiliary police forces armed with metal bars and wooden sticks.

During the numerous violent crackdowns by authorities on demonstrators over the last few months, journalists have been relatively spared and were able to report without too much difficulty. It seems the instructions to the police forces have changed and that our work will be more difficult from now on…

Statement from CCIM HERE.

Photographs from better times:

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CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 25/03/1999: Opening ceremony of newly created Senate. CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 10/03/2002: Dismantling a map made with skulls at the genocide museum of Tuol sleng, located in a school transformed into an interrogation center by the Khmer rouge. Dismantling of a map made by Vann Nath, one of two survivors of Tuol Sleng, in 1979 and made of skulls collected from nearby Choeung Ek Killing Field. CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 27/09/2003: 60 days after elections, the new National Assembly was supposed to meet. Only the elected members of the CPP (Cambodian People's Party) showed up. Elected FUNCINPEC and SRP (Sam Rainsy Party) members, contesting the election results and gathered in a newly formed Democratic Coalition, refused to endorse the new National Assembly by not showing up. Mr Hun Sen. CAMBODIA. Kambol (Phnom Penh). 20/11/2007: First public hearing at the ECCC regarding Kang Guek Eav (Duch), in charge of the S21 interrogation center between 1975 and 1979, appealing against his provisional detention order. CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 28/01/2008: Plenary session of judicial officers of the ECCC at the Raffles Le Royal. Jean-Marc LAVERGNE, judge at the trial chamber, Marcel LEMONDE, co-investigating judge. CAMBODIA. Kambol (Phnom Penh). 23/04/2008: Mrs. CHEA Leang, co-Prosecutor, at press conference after first appearance of KHIEU Samphan, former Khmer Rouge leader, in front of the ECCC Pretrial Chambers. CAMBODIA. Prasat Preah Vihear (Preah Vihear). 20/07/2008: TANG Chhin Sothy, AFP, in press center at 11th century temple listed as UNESCO World Heritage during military stand-off for border dispute between Thailand and Cambodia. CAMBODIA. Prasat Preah Vihear (Preah Vihear). 20/07/2008: VANDY Rattana, Photojournalist, transmitting pictures in press center at 11th century temple listed as UNESCO World Heritage during military stand-off for border dispute between Thailand and Cambodia. CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 8/08/2008: SRP press conference regarding the election results with SAM Rainsy (jacket, grey tie), head of the Sam Rainsy opposition Party, KEAT Sokhim (VP Human Rights Party-white shirt red tie), MUTH Chantha (Cabinet Chief of Norodom Ranariddh Party-yellow shirt) & Anandayath (former Radio Ta Phrom-grey jacket). CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 25/09/2008: Press room at the National Assembly. The press is not allowed into the National Assembly room itself. CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 25/09/2008: Press room at the National Assembly. The press is not allowed into the National Assembly room itself. CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 18/12/2008: Journalists at press conference held at HRP headquarters. CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 11/02/2009: Photographers trying to take pictures of opposition leader Sam Rainsy who happened to have to stand trial at the same time as Dey Krahorm evicted at Phnom Penh Municipal Court for the trial of three of them, accused of violence on 7NG company employees. CAMBODIA. Kambol (Phnom Penh). 17/02/2009: Journalists during first hearing of Kaing Geuk Euv, Alias Duch, head of S21 interrogation center during the Khmer Rouge regime. CAMBODIA. Kambol (Phnom Penh). 17/02/2009: Reach Sambath, ECCC spokesman, talking to the press at opening of Duch trial. CAMBODIA. Kambol (Phnom Penh). 29/04/2009: Press room during 14th day of Kaing Guek Eav, alias Duch, trial at the ECCC. CAMBODIA. Kambol (Phnom Penh). 20/05/2009: 18th day of Duch trial at the ECCC. CAMBODIA. Kambol (Phnom Penh). 10/06/2009: Press conference on the 26th day of Duch trial at the ECCC. CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 01/02/2013: Press attending the funeral procession of King Norodom Sihanouk. CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 5/01/2014: Press at a funeral ceremony at the opposition CNRP headquarters for the workers killed during the Veng Sreng road crackdown. CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 14/01/2014: Press at the arrival of Kem Sokha, CNRP co-President, at the court to be summonsed together with Sam Rainsy, CNRP co-President, and Rong Chhun, Leader of the Independent Teachers Association, to answer questions about their alleged incitement to violence during the weeks-long workers srike. CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 16/01/2014: Journalists at a press conference by Surya P. Subedi, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights, following separate meetings with Prime Minister Hun Sen and opposition CNRP co-Presidents Sam Rainsy and Kem Sokha. CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh 7/03/2014: Chiv Sanna, Mak Remissa and Heng Chivoan, photojournalists, at public forum with civil society groups organised by the CNRP at the Imperial Garden Hotel. CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh 26/03/2014: Kem Sokha and Sam Rainsy, opposition CNRP co-presidents give a press conference at the CNRP headquarters. CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh 10/04/2014: Journalists listening to Sam Rainsy, co-president of the opposition CNRP, at a press conference announcing the near completion of an agreement with the ruling CPP regarding the electoral reform and the next election date. CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 22/01/2014: Press and 'political tourists' on the 10th commemoration of the assassination of union leader Chea Vichea, when a small crowd, led by Chea Mony, Union Leader and Chea Vichea's brother, Sam Rainsy and Kem Sokha, opposition CNRP Co-Presidents, marched from the FUTWC office to the statue of Chea Vichea.
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