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  "slug": "hun-sen",
  "name": "Hun Sen",
  "office": null,
  "role": "Prime Minister of Cambodia",
  "country": "KH",
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      "slug": "2017-cambodia-daily-closed-tax-bill",
      "title": "Cambodia's government forces the closure of The Cambodia Daily with a disputed multimillion-dollar tax bill",
      "occurred_on": "2017-09-04",
      "occurred_on_precision": "day",
      "country": "KH",
      "country_name": "Cambodia",
      "continent": "asia",
      "jurisdiction": "KH",
      "level": "national",
      "tactic_primary": "outlet_licensing",
      "tactics": [
        "funding_and_ownership_pressure",
        "outlet_licensing"
      ],
      "leader_slug": "hun-sen",
      "leader_name": "Hun Sen",
      "issue_of_the_day": "Preparations for Cambodia's 2018 general election and a wider government campaign against independent media and civil-society groups seen as sympathetic to the opposition.",
      "outcome": "sustained",
      "outcome_on": "2017-09-04",
      "outcome_note": "The Cambodia Daily did not reopen; its closure coincided with a wider campaign against independent outlets and civil-society groups ahead of Cambodia's 2018 election.",
      "stage": "silence",
      "ladder_note": null,
      "rsf": {
        "index": "RSF World Press Freedom Index",
        "year": 2026,
        "rank": 151,
        "of": 180,
        "label": "RSF 2026 rank: 151st of 180",
        "source_url": "https://rsf.org/en/index"
      },
      "era": "2010s",
      "granularity": "anchor",
      "status": "historical",
      "case_count": 0,
      "summary": "Cambodia's tax authority presented the independent, English-language Cambodia Daily with a $6.3 million bill the paper called arbitrary and undocumented, forcing the 24-year-old newspaper to close rather than pay, amid a wider campaign against independent media before 2018 elections.",
      "url": "https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2017-cambodia-daily-closed-tax-bill"
    }
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    "name": "CC BY 4.0",
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