PHNOM PENH: A Cambodian court jailed a fixer and translator for two years on Wednesday for his role in making a documentary about sex trafficking in the Southeast Asian country which the government said contained"fake news".
The documentary Mony worked on, titled My Mother Sold Me, included an account of a poor Cambodian girl who was sold into sex work, prompting authorities to question those involved. Judge Koy Sao said Mony, who is also the president of the Cambodian Construction Workers Trade Union Federation , was convicted of incitement to cause discrimination, without elaborating.Sao ordered Mony to pay US$17,500 compensation to two of the mothers, Keo Malai and Tep Sreylin, who appeared in the film.
"I didn't sell my daughter and Mony told me to say negative things so that there would be more funding," Malai told Reuters after the verdict.