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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Rebecca Ratcliffe South-east Asia correspondent

British investigative journalist banned from Cambodia

Gerald Flynn writes in a notepad while listening to a person he is interviewing
Gerald Flynn conducting an interview with community forest patrollers in Chhaeb-Preah Roka wildlife sanctuary while investigating illegal logging in 2023. Photograph: Chasing Deforestation/Mongabay.

A British environmental and investigative journalist has been banned from entering Cambodia, in what press groups have condemned as yet another attack on independent media by the country’s authoritarian leaders.

Gerald Flynn, who writes for the news outlet Mongabay, was denied entry to Cambodia on 5 January as he returned from a holiday, according to the publication, which said he was forced on to a plane and flown to Thailand.

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