Cambodia blocks 17 media websites before vote

Free media locales taken disconnected for 48 hours as Cambodians get ready to vote on Sunday in a dubious election.

Phnom Penh, Cambodia - The legislature blocked access to free media sites hours before surveying in the nation's dubious national election starts.

Phos Sovann, executive general of data and broadcasting at the Information Ministry, affirmed a sum of 17 sites - including Voice of America, Radio Free Asia (RFA), Voice of Democracy, and the Phnom Penh Post - had been focused on.

"We asked for to our panel individuals, alongside the Ministry of Interior and Ministry of Telecommunications, to shut those sites down," he said.

The National Election Committee asked for political gatherings and media outlets to "stay quiet" for a 24-hour time span ahead of time of election day on Sunday.

The administration declaration comes seven days after a sudden multiplication of WhatsApp gatherings, in which conceivably several Cambodians ended up added to visits through the Facebook-possessed envoy benefit.

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Sovann asked for network access suppliers to obstruct the destinations for 48 hours, while different news locales amicable to strongman Prime Minister Hun Sen's administration stayed available on the web.

"We watched that the substance of those new media are provocative. Those substance are extremely political in their propensities, and they are limiting to the decision," he said.

"I don't believe it's uncalled for … It's only for 48 hours before the election."