15 August 2014, Eddie Morton, PhnomPenh Post
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Private-sector representatives today are to conclude a two-day consultation forum with the government over the controversial new draft telecommunications law.
The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications’ (MPT) yet-to-be-approved draft law includes provisions that grant the ministry judicial powers to indict telecom service-related operators and even everyday users of communications devices over breaches of the proposed laws, according to an unofficially translated version of the confidential document.
“The officials of the MPT and the [Telecommunication Regulator of Cambodia] have a legal status as judicial police officers with a function as specified in the Code of Criminal Procedures on the function of judicial police,” the draft law states. (continued)
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