Man charged over criticism on PM’s pandemic response

[geovalin]

Kampong Thom Provincial Court yesterday charged and detained a man accused of inciting unrest over the government’s decision to cancel Khmer New Year celebrations and restrict inter-provincial travel in a bid to stem the coronavirus pandemic.

 

Major Duong Rithy, deputy chief of the Kampong Thom Provincial Internal Security Department, identified the accused as Lekh Seangly, 21, a gas vendor from Taing Kork district’s Treal commune. Seangly was charged with “incitement to commit a felony” under Article 495 of the Criminal Code. If convicted, he faces up to two years in prison and a fine between $250 and $1,000.

 

According to Maj Rithy, Seangly, in a Facebook post on April 10, said: “Prime Minister Hun Sen used the coronavirus epidemic as an excuse for the Kingdom’s economic losses when the downturn is, in fact, caused by the EBA withdrawal…Samdech Hun Sen is a foolish and arrogant prime minister.”

 

read more https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50713595/man-charged-over-criticism-on-pms-pandemic-response/

[yuyiinthesky]

Now before you start bashing Cambodia for not allowing to criticize the government, the so very democratic Germany is doing worse, locking up even lawyers:

 

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Coronavirus lockdown: German lawyer detained for opposition

 

A large number of well-established doctors and lawyers in the German-speaking countries have questioned the constitutionality of their governments' stringent confinement measures, which are commonly being referred to by the English loan-word der Shutdown (as there is no precedent for what to call the situation in German). These measures have begun to be challenged openly on the streets of Berlin. The medical and legal dissidents number in the dozens. None, however, has paid such a price for that freedom of speech as the German medical lawyer Beate Bahner, who has been committed to a psychiatric institution for publicly disagreeing with the measures and policies followed by the German government.

 

Source: https://www.ukcolumn.org/article/coronavirus-lockdown-german-lawyer-detained-opposition

[Baerboxer]

3 hours ago, yuyiinthesky said:

Now before you start bashing Cambodia for not allowing to criticize the government, the so very democratic Germany is doing worse, locking up even lawyers:

 

 

Source: https://www.ukcolumn.org/article/coronavirus-lockdown-german-lawyer-detained-opposition

 

Oh dear. Going back to the time when any who disagreed with the German government could be and often were declared insane.

 

 

[Benmart]

3 hours ago, yuyiinthesky said:

Now before you start bashing Cambodia for not allowing to criticize the government, the so very democratic Germany is doing worse, locking up even lawyers:

 

 

Source: https://www.ukcolumn.org/article/coronavirus-lockdown-german-lawyer-detained-opposition

The article is about Cambodia and not Germany. I focus on the article and not elsewhere.

Edited April 16, 2020 by Benmart

[Brickbat]

Trump does that. Attacks reporters in public with demeaning insults when they ask questions to do with his inefficiency . He needs firing! 
he’d love to be King Trump! 

[thesetat2013]

2 hours ago, Brickbat said:

Trump does that. Attacks reporters in public with demeaning insults when they ask questions to do with his inefficiency . He needs firing! 
he’d love to be King Trump! 

Any excuse to bring your Trump hating comments will be used I guess. Why can't you focus on the article? And why are moderators allowing your obvious Trump hating comments to be used in this article when it obviously has nothing to do with the article? 

Cambodia may be doing this openly. But then so are many other so called democratic countries. So does China. Speaking out about what you believe can easily be twisted into citing discord or discontent and have yourself arrested for it. 

[yodsak]

9 hours ago, yuyiinthesky said:

Source: https://www.ukcolumn.org/article/coronavirus-lockdown-german-lawyer-detained-opposition

[timendres]

11 hours ago, Brickbat said:

Trump does that. Attacks reporters in public with demeaning insults when they ask questions to do with his inefficiency . He needs firing! 
he’d love to be King Trump! 

Were those reporters "detained and accused of inciting unrest"?

[Brickbat]

11 hours ago, timendres said:

Were those reporters "detained and accused of inciting unrest"?

He ain’t King yet! But it’s much more insidious. He’s very cunning 

[yuyiinthesky]

20 hours ago, yodsak said:

I get it, you don't like UK Column. Forgive me, it was simply the first English translation I found. There is a lot about the arrest of medical lawyer Beate Bahner in the German news, for example in the "Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung", a newspaper, but in German language. However the content of that English text seems to be equivalent to the German news, at least as far as I understand them. Thus it doesn't really matter who "the messenger" is.