Reporter detained for allegedly inciting villagers facing eviction
A reporter for local television station MSJ TV was briefly detained and questioned by police on 20 February for allegedly inciting residents who are facing eviction from their riverside homes in Kompong Chhnang City, a journalist and officials said on 21 February.
Ngunly Theara, a news reader for MSJ TV, said he went to Phsar Krom village on 20 February morning to interview residents along with the station’s CEO, Meng Sophorn, and provincial correspondents Sann Bora and Say Sanya.
