On September 25, 2018, four human rights workers from the Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights (LICADHO) were reportedly intimidated and brought to the commune police station for questioning in Pursat province’s Veal Veng district on the orders of the commune police chief. The group had provided material assistance as part of the rights organisation’s social work project to 17 families locked in a land conflict with MDS Company, a rubber concessionaire owned by powerful tycoon Try Pheap. The four rights workers were accused of having handed out the materials without the permission of local authorities.