Uon Chhin and Yeang Sothearin, former journalists of the Radio Free Asia, seat inside a police vehicle as they arrive for a bail hearing at the Appeal Court in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, April 19. (Reuters photo)PHNOM PENH: A Cambodian court extended the pre-trial detention of two Radio Free Asia journalists who've been in prison for six months while espionage charges are investigated. The journalists, Uon Chhin and Yeang Socheamet, were arrested in November and charged with undermining Cambodian national security by supplying information to a foreign state. But a spokesman for Phnom Penh Municipal Court, Ei Rin, said a judge extended their detention because the investigation isn't completed. The increasingly authoritarian government of Prime Minister Hun Sen has shut down more than a dozen radio stations and dissolved the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party.

Source: Bangkok Post May 18, 2018 10:23 UTC