Cambodian reporter facing five years in prison for comment about vaccines

NewsReporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for the immediate release of a Cambodian journalist who was arrested a week ago for no other reason than his criticism of the government’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic. His arrest is a reflection of the Cambodian government’s use of the pandemic to silence dissent, RSF says.Kouv Piseth, a journalist also known as Kao Piseth, is facing a possible combined sentence of five years in prison following his arrest on 14 July in the northwestern city of Batta

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