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so, the only one that is being charged is the organizer, good
should also have gotten the MC as he pushed them to do the dirty.....

wonder how much $$ they parted with to get the charges "dropped", ( not the same as out on bail)

now here's how they do dancing in Phuket

Backpacker jailed for ‘porn dancing’ in Cambodia reveals horrors of hellhole jail
A TOURIST who was among 10 people arrested abroad for “sexy dancing” has told of the horror two weeks that followed the incident.

Talia Shadwell and Corey Charlton
The SunMARCH 8, 201810:37AM


A New Zealand man jailed in Cambodia for “pornographic dancing” has revealed he drank pig’s blood while imprisoned and claims his passport was withheld until he paid $7000 in cash.

Paul Brasch, 32, spent almost two weeks locked inside a tiny cell with dozens of other prisoners where he had to pay for his meals or faced eating snakes kept alive on-site by his jailers, The Sun reports.

Mr Brasch was one of 10 people, including five Brits, jailed in Siem Riep after authorities raided a pool party on January 26 and accused partygoers of offending their culture with “pornographic dancing”.

His shocking account of his time in prison raises fears for the health and future of the one remaining member of the group still imprisoned

Mr Brasch told The Sun Online he was kept in a tiny overcrowded cell with about 30 other inmates.

The prisoners used water bottles for T-shirts and had only a hole in the floor in the corner for a toilet. It was so cramped they slept almost on top of one another.

Everyday his jailers would taunt the group by joking they were about to be released and he was given just four hours’ outside time every day.

“One day this guy came out with three pythons and just threw them into the yard,” he said.

“They were all chasing people and everyone was just jumping away from them and were like: ‘What the hell?’

“One guy grabbed one’s head, and another guy grabbed the tail, and started like, whacking it on the ground to loosen up its insides.

“And then they started force feeding fish into its mouth.”

Another prisoner then explained to Mr Brasch the snakes were fed to inmates along with the pig’s blood if they had no money to pay for food.

“Even the Cambodians said: ‘Look, you don’t want to eat this’,” he said.

After trying the pig’s blood and immediately vomiting in his mouth, he decided to pay $2.50 a day for a meal of rice and beef, and an additional $6.40 a month for electricity.

Later the group would be forced to apologise for the crime — which they have always denied — on Cambodian television. They were warned prison guards would make their “lives hard” if they did not.

Mr Brasch also described a corrupt justice system full of bribery and kickbacks where inmates would have to pay for even the smallest privileges.

He claimed to have bribed cops to allow him to keep a mobile phone in his police cell immediately following his arrest, and was asked to pay money to three different lawyers offering to help him. One of these lawyers simply took his money and vanished.

Hundreds of dollars were also given to corrupt prison guards — who drank and partied while guarding the inmates — to ensure Mr Brasch and his fellow co-accused were placed in one of the larger jail cells.

“Everything was dealt with in cash — just cash to this person, that person,” he said.

This hellish ordeal continued until February 8, when seven members of the group, including Paul, were released on bail. He said the charges against him were later withdrawn.

After being released he was introduced to a Western man who showed Paul his passport and told him he could get it back if he paid $7000.


“He said you basically need to pay us by Monday or you’re going back to prison. He showed it to me. He kept it in his pocket, it was a bit frustrating,” Mr Brasch said.

He managed to scrape together the cash from his parents and a friend. The man later claimed this money was for lawyers’ fees.

Mr Brasch now hopes to continue living abroad — though is wary of staying in any countries close to Cambodia after the “mentally draining” ordeal.

He believes the charges were ridiculous, adding that photos police released of the so-called pornographic dancing were taken at a completely different event.

“You can see blatantly that it’s a daytime event. It makes no sense — it was a daytime event. I just don’t understand how I didn’t pick up on it or how they were dumb enough to actually post that,” he said.

The Cambodian embassy in Britain did not respond to The Sun’s request for a comment.

In regards to the British member of the group who remains in jail in Cambodia, a spokesman for the British Foreign Office said: “Our staff continue to assist a British man jailed in Cambodia, and are supporting his family. We are in contact with the Cambodian authorities regarding his case.”

This article originally appeared on The Sun and was reproduced with permission.

The "water bottles for t-shirts" bit makes no fucking sense whatsoever. ?????

that must be google translate from kiwi to english............................