in the area, on whose crimes #Cheng reported several times in the past.
#Journalists investigating #IllegalDeforestation in #Cambodia, as well as other #press members, are frequently subjected to violence. Similar to #ChhoeungChheng incident has already happened ten years prior, when Cambodian journalist #TaingTry was fatally shot while investigating illegal logging in the southern province of #Kratie, along with five other journalists.
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https://rsf.org/en/reporter-shot-dead-while-investigating-illegal-logging
sustained two days earlier while reporting on illegal logging in a local #NatureReserve.
RSF called it appalling and urged the Cambodian government not only to severely punish all those involved, but also “to take concrete actions to end violence against journalists” as press freedom in the country deteriorates and journalists covering #IllegalLogging face violence.
A 63-year-old #ChhoeungChheng was a reporter for online media #KampucheaAphivath
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Chhoeung Chheng, 63, a journalist for Kampuchea Aphivath, is in surgery after receiving serious injuries during a shooting by an unknown assailant. Authorities are now investigating amid rising concerns over press safety in Cambodia
Reporters Without Borders (#RSF) called on the #Cambodian government on Sunday to bring to justice those responsible for the #murder of an #EnvironmentalJournalist, and to take decisive action to eradicate deteriorating violence against #journalists in the country.
The group strongly condemned the violence against local journalist #ChhoeungChheng, who died on December 7 in a hospital in #SiemReap from abdomen wounds
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Chhoeung Chheng was an environmental journalist working in one of the most dangerous countries in the world for that profession, Cambodia. He covered illegal logging and other environmental crimes, and last week, a suspected illegal logger killed him for it.
RIP. Your work was important. It will be remembered. It will continue.
SIEM REAP, Cambodia — Chhoeung Chheng, a journalist covering environmental issues for local online news outlet Kampuchea Aphiwat News, has died of his injuries after being shot in Siem Reap province on Dec. 4 by a suspected illegal logger. Chheng was rushed to a commune health clinic with a gunshot wound to the abdomen before being […]
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