PHNOM PENH: Two Cambodian journalists were charged on Saturday with spying for allegedly filing news reports to Washington-based Radio Free Asia amid a sweeping government crackdown on dissent.

The reporters were detained on Tuesday night, days before Cambodia’s main opposition party was dissolved over accusations it conspired with the US in a treason plot.

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