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Read More Supreme Court Upholds Incitement Verdict Against Candlelight’s Thach Setha
The Supreme Court on Friday upheld a lower court’s verdict on opposition Candlelight Party vice president Thach Setha who was sentenced to three years’ jail and fined four million riel (about $1000) for incitement to disturb social order and discrimination. In February this year, the Court of Appeal in Phnom Penh sustained the Phnom Penh Municipal Court’s conviction against Setha who violated Articles 494, 495 and 496 of the Criminal Code.
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Read More New Professional Journalism Charter Speedily Implemented Only Days After Input Deadline
Last Friday, CamboJA rushed to submit the input gathered from media partners and its members to the ministry. CamboJA requested the deletion of a few phrases, and addition of some “important” phrases in the draft including Article 4, 5, 21 and 28. He said some were amended but others remained the same. Article 5 saw “little” change. CamboJA requested the deletion of the entire second phrase of the article because it was built around legal principles and other rules.
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Read More Cambodia’s prime minister warns against Bangladesh-like demonstrations
Prime Minister Hun Manet warned Cambodians against protesting against the government, citing Bangladesh’s recent demonstrations in its capital that turned into deadly clashes and caused that country’s leader to resign and flee by helicopter earlier this week.
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Read More Labor Ministry Brings Home 26 Cambodian Migrant Workers Stuck in Saudi Arabia For Months
Twenty six Cambodian worker, who allegedly worked long hour with inadequate food, have returned home after being retained for four months in Saudi Arabia. Four more remain but will be repatriated soon
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Read More Zhen Tai Garment Factory Workers Urge Speedy Settlement of NSSF Payment Dispute
After waiting for three months, they decided to lodge a complaint with the Labor Ministry on July 11, 2024 to resolve the matter. On July 31, 2024, the ministry invited workers and company representatives to discuss, but no agreement was reached.Sophen said the workers demanded that the company resolve 13 issues, one of them being the speeding up of the NSSF payment deficit.
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Read More Journalist Associations Rush To Submit Input on Draft Journalism Charter Amid Tight Deadline
On July 24, the ministry held a consultation with approximately 200 media associations and journalists to gather feedback on the draft charter. The draft was only distributed to participants on the morning of the consultation. While organizations like the Cambodian Journalists Alliance Association (CamboJA) and UNESCO did not provide immediate feedback on the consultation day, but asked for additional time to review the draft. Other organizations, such as the Club of Cambodian Journalists, made recommendations while supporting the draft.
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Read More Cambodia’s Young Environmental Activists Pay a Heavy Price
It’s risky to try to protect the environment in authoritarian Cambodia. Ten young activists from the Mother Nature environmental group have recently been given long jail sentences. Two were sentenced to eight years on charges of plotting and insulting the king. Another seven were sentenced to six years for plotting, while one, a Spanish national banned from entering Cambodia, was sentenced in absentia.
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Read More Mondulkiri Bunong Community Protest Destruction of Rubber Trees by Environmental Rangers
Some 200 indigenous people protested on Friday to demand authorities to expedite the issuance of communal land title after environmental rangers destroyed the rubber plants in their village farmland in Mondulkiri province.
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Read More UNESCO to Investigate Alleged Rights Abuses at Angkor Wat
Land grabbing has been a hot-button issue in Cambodia ever since the first United Nations peacekeepers arrived in the early 1990s and initiated their first de-mining programs, in a country where quality real estate was in short supply and arguments over ownership were many and heated.
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Read More Five Run Ta Ek, Rolous Residents Questioned By Court Over Legal Suit By Apsara Authority
According to the summons issued by deputy prosecutor Ngel Sovanrith, the residents were questioned for “obstructing public officers, illegal detention, issuing threats, insults, conditions as well as attempting murder” in Ta Ek village, Run Ta Ek commune, Banteay Srey district, Siem Reap province on April 24.
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Read More Court Grants Government’s Request to Confiscate Teav Vannol’s Properties After Defamation Lawsuit
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court granted an injunction order to stop Candlelight Party president Teav Vannol from transferring his properties to a third party after he lost the defamation suit brought by the government. A decision came one week after the court found Vannol guilty of defamation and ordered him to pay $1.5 million in compensation to the government.
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Read More “Strategic, Systematic Operations” Set Up To Attack Independent Media
The Facebook pages of three independent foreign-based media outlets have been criticized on social media by groups dressed in military uniforms and accounts with one or two photos. These groups allegedly used insulting language, accusing the outlets of foreign service and spreading fake news.
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Read More Man arrested after authorities infiltrate ‘secret’ rebel Telegram group
Pursuant to the order of the Investigating Judge, on July 28, 2024, the police arrested Touch Rattanak, male, born on October 5, 1984, who participated in inciting to demonstrate to overthrow the Royal Government in a telegram group called ‘Demonstration for the Nation’.
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Read More Investors, NGO target Nike over unpaid Thai, Cambodian supply chain workers
NIKE has been accused by a group of 70 investors and more than 50 human rights groups for failing to compensate over 4,000 workers in its supply chain in Cambodia and Thailand.
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Read More UNESCO to send inspection team to Cambodia’s Angkor temple complex
A UNESCO committee has recommended that an inspection team visit the disputed Angkor area in Cambodia’s Siem Reap province, where the forcible removal of thousands of families has drawn allegations of human rights abuses.
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Read More Civic Space, Human Rights, Election Process Among Nine Key Concerns of UN Special Rapporteur
Vitit Muntarbhorn, United Nations special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia, said the civic and political space, and rights of indigenous people were still restricted, although the new government was now led by the new generation. He also said the elections were “far from being free and fair”.
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Read More Boeung Tamok Residents Questioned by Court As Majority Accept Exchange Policy
To date, 21 houses remain there, while 88 houses have accepted the land exchange policy and moved to new places, according to a Prek Pnov district official. Meanwhile, community residents said only three houses have not submitted the negotiation proposal.
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Read More Four Paris Peace Agreement Activists Charged With Incitement After CLV_DTA Broadcast
Its spokesperson Touch Sokhak said the four activists have been sent by the national police to pretrial detention following a court warrant by an investigating judge. The warrant stated that the four defendants and accomplices broadcast a live video on Srun Srorn’s Facebook about the Cambodia-Laos-Vietnam Development Triangle Areas (CLV-DTA), making comments that “distorted” and “fabricated” information with ill intention to incite anger against the government leadership. “This act has caused serious damage to national security,” read the warrant on Wednesday.
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Read More Candlelight Party President Guilty of Defamation, Ordered To Pay $1.5M Compensation To Government
"The court has considered that it has adequate evidence [to convict] the defendant, Teav Vannol, of having committed public defamation in Phnom Penh," said presiding judge Hok Pov, adding that the defendant can appeal if he was not satisfied with the decision.
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Read More In Cambodia, Indigenous villagers lose forest & land amid carbon offset project
A member of an Indigenous ethnic Bunong community, the elderly Bpel lives in the village of Pu Kong deep inside the 292,690-hectare (723,250-acre) Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary, much of it part of a leading carbon offset initiative, in northeastern Cambodia’s Mondulkiri province.
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