{"id":1720,"date":"2022-05-07T05:39:07","date_gmt":"2022-05-07T05:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cambodia.factcrescendo.com\/english\/?p=1720"},"modified":"2022-06-01T12:24:20","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T12:24:20","slug":"opposition-leader-kem-sokha-standing-with-eight-girls-digitally-edited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cambodia.factcrescendo.com\/english\/opposition-leader-kem-sokha-standing-with-eight-girls-digitally-edited\/","title":{"rendered":"Opposition Leader Kem Sokha Standing with Eight Girls Digitally Edited"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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As Cambodia\u2019s next commune election is coming in June, a picture showing the country\u2019s main opposition leader Kem Sokha standing with a group of beautiful girls was posted on social media. The picture has been multiple shared by Facebook users in different social media groups. However, after running a Google Reverse Image Search, it proves the photo is digitally edited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Social Media Claim<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Facebook user posted a photo last month showing Kem Sokha \u2013 Cambodia\u2019s main opposition leader whose political action has been banned for five years due to a \u201ctreason\u201d charge \u2013 standing in the middle of eight beautiful girls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The photo has been multiple shared by Facebook users, especially in different social media groups. Below is the capture of the photo which was posted on a Facebook page on April 30.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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FACEBOOK POST<\/a> | ARCHIVED LINK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fact Check<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fact Crescendo Cambodia began a verification over the photo by running Google Reverse Image Search which led us to find out the truth as below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The photo showing eight girls standing around a man was found in an article<\/a> of the SUN in late January this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.K-based media reported the man in the photo is a Thai who took a photo with his eight wives before a TV show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Thai man is Ong Dam Sorot, a tattoo artist who has eight wives living in a single house with rotation, the Sun\u2019s report said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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THE SUN<\/a> | ARCHIVED LINK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thus, the original photo shows no picture of Kem Sokha standing along with eight beautiful girls. And below is a comparable image.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kem Sokha, 68, has been the president of Cambodia National Rescue Party<\/a> (CNRP) since 2017 before it was dissolved by the country\u2019s supreme court late that year after he was controversially charged with treason.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CNRP won 55 seats in the 2013 national election and then nearly haft of the total number of seats in the 2017 commune election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sokha had stayed in CNRP\u2019s headquarters for several months after a phone call conversation with a young woman was leaked in 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conclusion<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fact Crescendo Cambodia found out the photo as mentioned earlier is altered. The photo of Kem Sokha was digitally edited along with eight girls. The original photo is seen a Thai man taking a picture with his eight beautiful wives before a TV show in late January this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t