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Monday, July 26, 2004 |
RADIO FREE ASIA SLAMS CAMBODIAN ARRESTS {RFA]
WASHINGTON, July 26, 2004—Radio Free Asia (RFA) on Monday condemned the Cambodian government’s arrest of two reporters, including an RFA stringer, and a human rights worker as they tried to reach 17 Montagnard asylum-seekers from Vietnam. RFA President Richard Richter called on the Cambodian government to release the men immediately and unconditionally and to drop human-trafficking charges against them. [more]
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. 5:31:42 PM 
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RAIDS ON NEWSROOMS LEAVE HONG KONG MEDIA STUNNED [RFA]
HONG KONG, July 26, 2004—A series of “cowboy” raids by Hong Kong graft-busters on eight major media organizations have stunned journalists, re-igniting concerns over freedom of the press in the former British colony since its handover to Chinese rule. Officers of the territory’s Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) raided the desks and homes of several court reporters in the weekend raids in a move that has left media and rights groups stunned by its apparent heavy-handedness, RFA’s Cantonese and Mandarin services report. [more]
. 5:26:09 PM
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CAMBODIA ARRESTS THREE OVER MONTAGNARDS [RFA]
PHNOM PENH, July 26-Cambodian authorities have arrested a human rights worker and two reporters reporting on hundreds of Montagnard hilltribe people who fled central Vietnam for the Cambodian jungles. Kevin Doyle of the English-language Cambodia Daily newspaper, Radio Free Asia reporter Sok Rathavisal, and Pen Bunna of rights group Adhoc were detained on Sunday deep in the jungle of northeast Cambodia, where many Montagnards have been hiding for weeks. All three have now been charged with human-trafficking. [more]
. 9:46:35 AM
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