Mom Kunthear and Tep Nimol
Phnom Penh Post
THE Club of Cambodian Journalists on Tuesday issued a statement condemning the alleged assault of a reporter for the newspaper Rasmey Kampuchea in Banteay Meanchey province, and the organisation’s president said he was preparing a complaint to be filed in provincial court.
Vorng Tho, 36, said he was pursuing a story on illegal gambling on Monday evening when, as he was taking photographs of a house he believed doubled as a gambling venue, about 10 people came out and began beating him. Three people assaulted him particularly savagely, he added.
“They wanted to kill me because when they fought me, I heard [one of the three principal assailants] order her son to take a stick to fight me until I died, but I am lucky because I was helped by the people around that place,” he said.
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