Headlines- According to US President Donald Trump, talks with Iran may occur this next weekend.
- Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards claim that in response to US strikes on Qeshm Island in the Strait of Hormuz, they opened fire on US military installations.
- In order "to safeguard national security," Bahrain's Ministry of Interior declared that it has arrested fifteen people who were allegedly linked to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
- Kuwait said on Wednesday that one person was killed and numerous others were injured in an Iranian missile and drone strike on its international airport.
- During a press conference in Geneva on Wednesday, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director general of the World Health Organization, stated that the Ebola virus in central Africa has had a "big head-start" and warned that health officials were still lagging behind.
Tag: RFA Cambodian Journalists
Cambodian Court Rules Against Returning Passports,...
Yeang Sothearin and Uon Chhin—who had worked as an editor, reporter and news anchor, and a photographer and videographer for RFA’s Khmer Service, respectively—were taken into custody in November 2017
Cambodian Court Upholds Reinvestigation of Spying...
Local and international rights groups and legal observers have long condemned the treatment of the pair in the courts as part of a wider attack on the media and civil society in Cambodia and called for the country’s trade and aid partners to press for their release
Cambodian Court Postpones Ruling on Reinvestigation...
Yeang Sothearin and Uon Chhin—who had worked as an editor, reporter and news anchor, and a photographer and videographer for RFA’s Khmer Service, respectively—were taken into custody in November 2017 and charged with “illegally collecting information for a foreign source” after RFA closed its bureau in the capital in September that year
Threats Against Cambodian Journalists Linger After...
Independent news organizations in Cambodia are struggling to recover from a major crackdown on the free press during the 2018 election
New denial of justice for Cambodian...
On November 14, 2017, in the wake of their arrest, the pro-government website Fresh News had indeed leaked information according to which the police had found pornographic material “produced with foreign nationals” on the computer of the one of the two journalists. It is on the basis of this pseudo-information that the judge decided to continue the investigation