A CAMBODIAN court has started the trial of a British man who was among a group of foreigners arrested for allegedly posting photos on social media of sexually suggestive dancing.

Daniel Jones, who has been charged with producing pornography, appeared before the Siem Reap provincial court.

He was among 10 Westerners arrested in January for allegedly posting the photos from a party, and potentially faces up to a year in prison.

One of the lawyers for the defendant, Ouch Sopheaktra, said 31-year-old Jones was not granted bail and is the only one on trial because he organised the party.

The other nine were released on bail and were ordered to be deported last month.

Siem Reap provincial court spokesman, Yin Srang, said the court has set a one-day trial.

The 10 Westerners – five from the UK, two from Canada and one each from Norway, the Netherlands and New Zealand – were detained when police raided a commercially organised party at a rented villa in Siem Reap town and found people dancing by a swimming pool at an event described as a pub crawl.

Police said those caught in the raid had been “dancing pornographically” and offended Cambodian standards of morality.

Sopheaktra will argue there was not enough evidence to convict Jones because the charge relies on images of Westerners posted on social media to advertise a party.