News fixer charged over RT sex doc

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Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday charged a news fixer with incitement to discriminate over his involvement in the production of a sex trafficking documentary dismissed by the government as fake news. Rath Rott Mony, the news fixer, fled the country last week after the Russia Today documentary “My Mother Sold Me”, which he helped produce, went viral and angered the government, which dismissed it as fake news after sources featured in it retracted their statements on how young Cambodian girls were sold for sex to feed their impoverished families.

 

Mr Rott Mony was detained by Thai authorities on December 7 while at a visa office as he attempted to seek asylum in the Netherlands and was deported back to Cambodia on Wednesday evening. Phnom Penh Municipal Court spokesman Ly Sophanna yesterday confirmed that police brought Mr Rott Mony to court, where an investigating judge charged him with incitement to discriminate before placing him in pre-trial detention.“The investigating judge decided to detain him on charges of incitement to discriminate,” Mr Sophanna said.

 

Under the charge, Mr Mr Rott Mony faces one to three years behind bars if convicted. The 27-minute RT documentary detailed destitute families in Cambodia selling off their daughters’ virginity for about $400 each, and when their girls’ virginity was lost, they were then forced into prostitution.

 

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[Burma Bill]

"Russia Today" (RT Channel) is notorious itself at disseminating fake news and is funded by the Russian Government (with Putin's knowledge), according to a recent documentary screened here in Thailand by TRUE.