🇰🇭 CAMBODIA
🔴 Press Freedom Under Attack

🪧 UK journalist Gerald Flynn banned from Cambodia after exposing environmental issues.

🪧 Reporter Chhoeung Chheng shot dead investigating illegal deforestation—echoing past journalist killings.

🪧 Crackdown intensifies: arrests, media shutdowns, & Cambodia ranks 151st in press freedom.

#Cambodia #PressFreedom #HumanRights #Journalism

Quarterly Monitoring Report on #Journalism Situation in #Cambodia (July – September, 2024) របាយការណ៍ឃ្លាំមើលប្រចាំត្រីមាសស្តីពីស្ថានភាពសារព័ត៌មាននៅកម្ពុជា ចាប់ពីខែកក្កដា ដល់ខែកញ្ញា ឆ្នាំ២០២៤Download | CamboJA https://www.camboja.net/advocacy/reports/quarterly-report/quarterly-monitoring-report-on-journalism-situation-in-cambodia-july-september-2024/

‘A Cambodian #journalist has died…after being shot while covering illegal logging…, sparking an outcry among press freedom groups, though authorities were quick to blame the murder on a personal dispute... every #pressfreedom group that monitors this part of the world has recorded, “a safe environment for journalists” is hardly an appropriate description for a reporter’s life in #Cambodia.’ | Luke Hunt, The Diplomat. See the full article at https://thediplomat.com/2024/12/cambodian-journalist-killed-while-covering-illegal-logging/

The videos posted to Facebook all have the same look and feel: The subject looks directly at the camera, joins his hands in a sampeah – a #Cambodian gesture of respect – and apologizes.

Examples from last month – Cambodian #journalist Mech Dara and overseas #activist Hay Vanna – were just the latest additions to a long list of activists and #critics forced by #threats or legal action to recant and pledge their loyalty to the ruling #CambodianPeoplesParty (CPP).

Those are some of the most high-profile instances. Several other opposition activists told #RadioFreeAsia that they were forced to pledge allegiance to the ruling party to maintain the safety of their family or to avoid politically motivated criminal charges.

https://www.rfa.org/english/cambodia/2024/11/17/cambodia-opposition-defections/

#AsianMastodon #PoliticalBlackmail #Censorship #Coercion #Cambodia #Dissenters #WarOnActivists #TootSEA #AsiaNews #SouthEastAsia #Defectors

Edward R. Rosenfeld, the chief exec of footwear brand Steve Madden, said that his company currently sourced >70% of its products from #China but had “been planning for a potential scenario in which we would have to move #goods out of China more quickly."

“As of yesterday morning, we are putting that plan into motion,” he said. Steve Madden had been making more shoes in #Cambodia, #Vietnam, #Mexico & #Brazil & its goal over the next year was to reduce its sourcing from China to only 40-45%.

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