{"id":92379,"date":"2017-03-04T02:38:05","date_gmt":"2017-03-04T07:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=92379"},"modified":"2017-03-04T02:38:05","modified_gmt":"2017-03-04T07:38:05","slug":"cambodia-arrests-4823-drug-related-suspects-in-2-months-of-anti-drug-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/03\/04\/cambodia-arrests-4823-drug-related-suspects-in-2-months-of-anti-drug-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Cambodia arrests 4,823 drug-related suspects in 2 months of anti-drug campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_92380\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-92380\" style=\"width: 536px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Handcuff.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-92380\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Handcuff.png\" alt=\"Cambodian authorities have arrested 4,823 drug-related suspects in 2,065 cases in the first two months of a six-month anti-drug campaign that was launched on Jan. 1, according to an Interior Ministry report released on Friday. (Photo: Keith Allison\/Flickr)\" width=\"536\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Handcuff.png 536w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Handcuff-300x199.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 536px) 100vw, 536px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-92380\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cambodian authorities have arrested 4,823 drug-related suspects in 2,065 cases in the first two months of a six-month anti-drug campaign that was launched on Jan. 1, according to an Interior Ministry report released on Friday. (Photo:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/keithallison\/5741994079\/\"> Keith Allison\/Flickr<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>PHNOM PENH\u2014Cambodian authorities have arrested 4,823 drug-related suspects in 2,065 cases in the first two months of a six-month anti-drug campaign that was launched on Jan. 1, according to an Interior Ministry report released on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The report said 2,357 were arrested for trafficking illicit drugs, and 2,466 were caught for using drugs.<\/p>\n<p>The number of the drug arrests in the first two months (January and February) was nearly half of the total number of people arrested for drug-related offenses in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>In the entirety of last year, police arrested some 9,800 suspects in illicit drug cases.<\/p>\n<p>In a public speech last month, Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen vowed to intensify the government&#8217;s efforts in combating illicit drugs and called for the people to help with the six-month anti-drug campaign.<\/p>\n<p>He also appealed to parents and legal guardians to advise their children to stay away from drugs.<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister said although some countries allow the police to kill drug criminals during their operations, Cambodia does not allow killings.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PHNOM PENH\u2014Cambodian authorities have arrested 4,823 drug-related suspects in 2,065 cases in the first two months of a six-month anti-drug &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":92380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,16,17],"tags":[16127],"class_list":["post-92379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news","category-news-w","tag-drug-related-suspects","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}