US Missionary Guilty of PP Orphanage Sex Abuse
EUGENE, Ore. – A Coos Bay man who started an unlicensed orphanage in Cambodia where he “systematically and repeatedly molested children” will spend the rest of his life in federal…
THE CRIME FICTION OF PHNOM PENH
Drifters, Conspirators, and Noir in Cambodia’s Capital City By Paul French for Crime Reads, originally published October 2018 This installment of “Crime and the City” is about Phnom Penh and…
Cambodian man jailed for insulting king in Facebook posts
Three-year sentence issued in second known conviction under new lèse-majesté law A Cambodian court has jailed a man for three years for insulting the king in Facebook posts, the second known conviction…
Former Thailand prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra does have a Cambodian passport, and may have used it to flee in 2017
Breaking news adds weight to the theory that a Thai politician escaped over border while supposedly being under 24-hour military surveillance Yingluck used the travel document to set up a…
Interview With Cambodian Facing Deportation
On Monday evening, a flight chartered by Immigration and Customs Enforcement is scheduled to take off from Texas, carrying dozens of Cambodians whom ice has ordered deported. Many of them came to the…
Cal. Supreme Court Blocks Deportee’s Pardon
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — In a rare step, the California Supreme Court has blocked Gov. Jerry Brown’s attempt to issue a pardon to a 37-year-old Cambodian refugee who killed a…
Khmer Rouge Trial Lawyer “Practising Illegally”
Lawyer for Khmer Rouge’s Nuon Chea was practising illegally, says Cambodian bar association, casting mistrial risk over historic verdict Victor Koppe is dismissed by a UN-backed tribunal in Cambodia after…
Surrogate Mothers Freed After Promising to Keep Babies
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia – Thirty-two Cambodian women who were charged with human trafficking for serving as surrogate mothers have been provisionally released from detention after agreeing to keep the babies rather…
Battambang Peace Gallery
By Kendra Bobowick “I arrived in Cambodia with a sense that tribunals and proceeding with criminal cases against the people who led the Khmer Rouge would be a pathway for getting…
I Live Next to My Torturer
(BBC) After 12 years in operation, the UN-backed Khmer Rouge Tribunal in Cambodia on Friday delivered what will likely be its final verdict. But away from the courtroom, some survivors…
Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan Guilty of Genocide
The two most senior Khmer Rouge leaders still alive today have been found guilty of genocide, almost 40 years since Pol Pot’s brutal communist regime fell, in a verdict followed by millions…
Duch Returns to Prison
Phnom Penh: Kaing Guek Eav, alias Duch, former chief of Tuol Sleng, or S-21, prison under the Khmer Rouge regime, returned to Kandal Province Prison on November 12th. The former Tuol…
Cop Has Revenge Porn Appeal Rejected
Phnom Penh: On the afternoon of October 31, 2018, Judge Pakchang Sambo, a judge at the Court of Appeal declared an order to uphold the verdict of the Phnom Penh…
Facing deportation, Cambodian refugee who killed as 14-year-old seeks pardon
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — By his own account, Borey Ai was a 14-year-old gangster when he killed a woman during a robbery that netted about $300. He spent 19 years in…
Strapping Drug Mule Update
PHNOM PENH, 23 Oct. – The Investigating Judge on Wednesday sentenced a Chinese prisoner to pre-trial detention over a drug trafficking case from Phnom Penh to Hong Kong. On October…
Belgian Wanted For Coke Bust Caught at Bavet Border
Svay Rieng: Police arrested Belgian in Bavet in connection with a cross-border drug trafficking case. The General Department of Immigration, in collaboration with the specialized force of the Anti-Narcotics Department…
