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Cambodia drops ban on foreign-produced radio shows
Published June 30, 2013
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PHNOM PENH (AFP) – Cambodia
reversed a ban on local radio stations airing foreign-produced broadcasts in
the run-up to next month's general election, following US criticism of the move as an
attack on freedom of expression.
Local FM radio stations
were this week ordered by the Information Ministry to provide
"neutral" coverage of the election campaign and to suspend broadcasting
Khmer-language programmes made by foreign broadcasters until after the July 28
general election.
The edict was criticised
by broadcasters and the US State Department, who said it was a "serious
infringement" of freedom of expression.
But in a U-turn on
Sunday the Information Ministry issued a statement saying it had allowed local
radio stations "to resume airing (foreign-produced) programmes as
usual."
US-funded Radio Free
Asia (RFA), which produces content in the Khmer language, had called the ban
"a blatant strategy to silence the types of disparate and varied voices
that characterise an open and free society."
Cambodia
on Thursday officially started campaigning for the July 28 general election,
expected to be won by strongman Prime Minister Hun Sen who is seeking to extend
his 28-year grip on the country.
His government is
regularly accused of suppressing political freedoms and muzzling activists.
Opposition leader Sam
Rainsy, his main challenger, is barred from running in the polls due to a string
of convictions that the opposition says are politically motivated.
Rainsy, who lives in
exile in France to avoid prison, faces 11 years in jail if he returns, after he
was convicted in absentia for charges that included publishing a "false
map" of the border with Vietnam.