Tourists deported from Cambodia after posing naked at Angkor temple

Three French tourists have been deported from Cambodia after taking naked pictures of each other at an Angkorian temple on Thursday.

Cambodia Daily reports that the tourists - Rodolphe Fourgeot, 19, Alexandre Vix, 19, and Vincent Bocquet, 20 - were convicted of producing pornography and for "exposure of sexual organs" by the Siem Reap Provincial Court on Saturday, according to deputy prosecutor Sok Keo Bandith.

They were fined and given a six-month suspended sentence, as well as being immediately deported.

The trio have been banned from returning to Cambodia for the next four years.

Mr Bandith said: "We used the procedure of deportation in order to warn other foreigners."

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The group were arrested while taking nude pictures at the Banteay Kdei temple within the Angkor complex, one of the largest religious sites in the world and a Unesco World Heritage Site. The pictures were uploaded onto the Cambodia Expats Online website.

According to news.com.au, prosecutor Koeut Sovannareth told AFP that the men "confessed to making a mistake and asked for the Cambodian people to forgive them for their actions".

She added: "They said their goal was to take nude photos to keep as souvenirs, but we believe that their intention was to use the photos in publications such as a calendar."

The Angkor Archaeological Park contains the remains of the different capitals of the Khmer Empire, dating from the 9th to the 15th Century, and is Cambodia's most popular tourist destination.

According to the Daily Mail, it is best known for its Angkor Wat temple, and attracts more than 1.5 million visitors a year.