Cambodia - Court urged to overturn French journalist's “procuring” conviction

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders reiterates its support for French journalist Daniel Lainé and urges the Phnom Penh court that is to hear his appeal tomorrow to overturn his seven-year jail sentence on an absurd “procuring” charge. Imposed in absentia by a Phnom Penh municipal court in 2010 in connection with a TV report on sex tourism that Lainé did in 2002, the sentence was confirmed by another court in a second trial in January 2013. “A veteran journalist who received the World Press Award in (...)

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