{"id":67038,"date":"2024-10-01T13:58:39","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T04:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/01\/award-winning-cambodian-journalist-mech-dara-arrested-say-rights-groups"},"modified":"2024-10-01T13:58:39","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T04:58:39","slug":"award-winning-cambodian-journalist-mech-dara-arrested-say-rights-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=67038","title":{"rendered":"Award-winning Cambodian journalist Mech Dara arrested, say rights groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dara, known for his reporting on human trafficking in the cyber scam industry, had worked for an independent news outlet that authorities closed last year<\/p>\n<p>An award-winning Cambodian journalist known for his reporting on human trafficking in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/10\/sold-to-gangs-forced-to-run-online-scams-inside-cambodias-cybercrime-crisis\">cyber scam industry<\/a> was arrested on Monday, according to the independent Cambodian Journalists Alliance Association (CamboJA).<\/p>\n<p>Mech Dara won a Hero Award last year for his investigations into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/law\/2023\/apr\/02\/i-couldnt-escape-the-people-trafficked-into-call-centres-and-forced-to-scam-australians\">exploitation at online scam compounds<\/a> in Cambodia. The award, which recognises efforts against human trafficking, was presented by US secretary of state Antony Blinken.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/01\/award-winning-cambodian-journalist-mech-dara-arrested-say-rights-groups\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dara, known for his reporting on human trafficking in the cyber scam industry, had worked for an independent news outlet that authorities closed last yearAn award-winning Cambodian journalist known for his reporting on human trafficking in the cyber sc&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,361,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-cambodia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67039,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67038\/revisions\/67039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}