In the run-up to this summer’s general election, Cambodia’s ruler claims to strengthen media freedom environment while dismantling what remains of the country’s independent media.
On February 13, Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen shuttered the independent Voice of Democracy news outlet after a disputed report on the government’s disaster relief for earthquake-hit Turkey.
Human Rights Watch agreed, saying that by closing VOD, the government had “effectively eliminated all vestiges of media freedom in Cambodia.”as “repressed,” noting that laws are “routinely misused to restrict civic freedoms,” including restrictions on journalists.Hun Sen’s appeal to the “professional ethics of journalists” fits into a broader government effort to control media.
Cambodia’s Press Law does prohibit publishing false information injurious to “national institutions.”VOD’s “serious insult” against the government would not result in a media outlet being closed. The U.N. Human Rights Office in Cambodia and local nongovernmental organizations like the Cambodian Center for Human Rights have documented numerous cases of journalistsRSF said that Hun Sen had “launched a ruthless war against independent journalism before the 2018 elections,” including an outright ban on radio and newspapers critical of his government and a “purge” of staff at non-compliant news organizations.in February 2018 that the “facade of media freedom collapsed in 2017.
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