“Thai police arrested the gunman at the Cambodia-Thailand border as he attempted to cross to Cambodia.”
What Fact Crescendo Cambodia found
Fact Crescendo found the claims described above to be misleading. The gunman who fatally shot Lim Kimya, a former Cambodian opposition MP, was arrested by Cambodian authorities at 1:50 PM in Maung Russey district, Battambang province. He fled to Cambodia after gunning down the politician in Bangkok on January 7, 2025.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Chham Chhany (Political Activist) made this claim around 8 January 2025. Fact Crescendo Cambodia (Cambodia) looked into it and published its finding on 9 January 2025, 1 day later. Its rating was “False”.
Chham Chhany has 8 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 6 of them false or fake, 2 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- Facebook posthttps://web.facebook.com/angrutnews/posts/pfbid02Hm2KteHVfPg6ipdgzgfV7FcvwBUYVANrF7Mxptjt…
- Facebook posthttps://web.facebook.com/sambora.khmer/posts/pfbid0gHWER9SRLh2K7mbeexxA4emZoGbhJTMeJBkiGo…
- Facebook posthttps://web.facebook.com/chhanyforfreedom/posts/pfbid095g6aXyJPywYAxxQMAtocVj5FpvBCFHgiNQ…
- Facebook posthttps://web.facebook.com/forfreedomkhmer/posts/pfbid02V8m7yizv6ymYCi2Tds9sherABt9LuYLCXko…
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