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A joint investigation by New Naratif, Prachatai and VOD reveals details of Thai dissident Wanchalearm Satsaksit’s escape from Thailand, life in exile in Cambodia and the last days before he disappeared on June 4, 2020.

Covid-19 patients in Cambodia have been treated with hydroxychloroquine, a health official said, even though medical researchers last year dismissed the drug as a treatment for Covid-19, and the WHO this week said it should not be used to treat coronavirus.

A general contractor in Texas who has never set foot in Cambodia is among more than a dozen foreign citizens called up to a mass trial of the banned main opposition party. Their experiences suggest Thai authorities supplied a Cambodian court with their names.

Environmental advocacy group Mother Nature Cambodia is known for their confrontational videos, with activists exposing crimes against nature. But with three members jailed, and others facing harassment, the group has decided to conceal their identities.

A crashed military drone found in Koh Kong province last week about 7 km from a controversial Chinese development project was manufactured in China, drone experts and a Cambodian Air Force official said.

A Cambodian translator helped foreign journalists film a documentary about alleged sex trafficking in the Kingdom. Authorities now claim the film’s subjects said they were paid to be in the film. The translator’s wife, who visited him in prison, says her husband is afraid, sick and innocent.

A recovering drug user with HIV died 10 days after he walked out of a Phnom Penh detention center, a death an NGO worker attributed to his being denied access to medication and methadone treatment while he was locked up for more than a month.  

For recently deported Cambodians who came of age in the U.S., their repatriation to Cambodia, a country in which many have few family members or cultural connections, has made them examine their own identity and the idea of home.

Outside the gates of Khmer-Soviet Friendship Hospital, where Cambodia’s only licensed methadone provider is located, authorities rounded up drug users into a caged truck, a video from the scene shows. 

A luxury cruise ship that was turned away by other Asian nations due to fears of coronavirus docked at Cambodia’s Sihanoukville port, with passengers required to undergo health checks before they can disembark, officials said.

A U.N.-backed court convicted two Khmer Rouge leaders of committing genocide, the first of Pol Pot’s cadre to be found guilty for targeting minority groups for elimination during the regime’s rule in Cambodia in the 1970s.

About 50 officers forcibly stopped about a dozen people protesting across the street from the Chinese Embassy in Phnom Penh, with one woman being carried away down Mao Tse Tung Blvd. by authorities and three other demonstrators pulled into the back of a police truck and driven away.