On November 23, Ouch Leng and fellow activists Tat Oudom, Heng Sros, Out Latin, Men Mat and Prum Mao were detained by the military in Talat commune, Sesan district, roughly 10 kilometers from a known logging operation inside Veun Sai-Siem Pang National Park in the country’s northern Stung Treng province. The activists had been investigating an illegal logging operation in a national park. On the morning of Nov. 24, the group was transferred to the Stung Treng police commissariat, where they were interrogated and held until their release on the afternoon of Nov. 25.