Thursday, September 27, 2012

Another journalist attacked in Cambodia for covering illegal logging

Mongabay: Two weeks after an environmental journalist was found murdered in the trunk of his car, another journalist has been brutally attacked in Cambodia. Ek Sokunthy with the local paper Ta Prum says he was beaten in his home by three assailants by a pistol and a stick. The attack follows swiftly after the high-profile murder of 44-year-old forest journalist Hang Serei Oudom. Ta Prum's Phum Chesda told the Phnom Penh Post that Sokunthy had written an article on illegal logging last month. Sokunthy received...

URL: http://news.mongabay.com/2012/0927-hance-journalist-attack.html

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