Cambodia: two Taiwanese sentenced to two years in prison for a fake kidnapping filmed live. The two men released a video earlier this week showing them being arrested and beaten by security agents in a building believed to house a cybercrime center.
Thousands of people, mostly Chinese, are lured into cybercrime centers that extract large sums of money from their victims. Hundreds of thousands of people in Southeast Asia are forced by criminal gangs to engage in online scams, often under threat of torture and sometimes subjected to sexual violence.