Phnom Penh (FN), March 16 – The Supreme Court decided to continue the detention of two former Radio Free Asia reporters, Oun Chhin and Yeang Socheameta, according to the defendants’ lawyer Keo Vanny after the hearing on Friday.

On February 15, 2018, Khieu Sopheak, spokesman for the Ministry of Interior, said that police found new evidences on Thursday afternoon in addition to pornographic photographs and videos of a former Radio Free Asia reporter, Oun Chhin, filming sexual content with foreigners in Cambodia.

Khieu Sopheak added that the pornographic photographs and videos that sometimes Oun Chhin acted as a photographer and sometimes a male actor were found in Oun Chhin’s computer, violating Cambodian morality.

The spokesman said that these acts are obviously offenses, contradicting their accusations that the police and the Royal Government framed the case to suppress the press freedom.

Oun Chhin and Yeang Socheameta were detained in Phnom Penh Commissariat after they were arrested on November 14, 2017 at Marady Guesthouse in Phnom Penh.

Representatives of the Phnom Penh Municipal Court have charged the two ex-RFA reporters for providing a foreign state with information that undermines the national defense under Article 445 of the Penal Code, which could face a sentence from 7 to 15 years of imprisonment.
=FRESH NEWS