CAMBODIA

The Supreme Court of Cambodia has ordered an appeal court to hear the case of a translator jailed for involvement in a Russia Today documentary about sex trafficking, citing what his lawyer said was a “factual problem” during the original trial. A lower court last year sentenced Rath Rott Mony, 49, to two years in prison for incitement to cause discrimination, after he assisted a Russian news crew in the making of a film that the government said contained “fake news” about Cambodia. His lawyer Lor Chunthy said the Supreme Court referred the case “after finding that there is a factual problem”, without elaborating. The government alleged that two people interviewed for the report were paid to lie about being sold into sex work.