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Marta Kasztelan

Marta Kasztelan

Marta Kasztelan is an independent filmmaker and journalist focused on human rights, radical groups and environmental issues in Asia and Europe.

The Cambodian activist, a member of environmental activism group Mother Nature, spent five months in pre-trial detention on charges of “plotting” to oust government.

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The demise of a flooded forest in the Mekong River, blamed on high-volume dams in China and to a lesser extent Laos, is robbing Cambodians of vital income.

Duped by traffickers offering lucrative jobs, dozens of Cambodian women and girls are taken to China each year, where they are forced to marry local men. Only the lucky ones manage to escape.

Lured or trafficked to Cambodia with promises of lucrative jobs, Chinese nationals instead find themselves worked relentlessly by their captors defrauding millions out of victims online.

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With its controversial views on marriage and links to a banned religious sect, Global Ikhwan is proving divisive in Malaysia. Marta Kasztelan looks at a conglomerate that is less a company and more a lifestyle choice for its 4,000 ‘members’.