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Adhoc staff grilled in court again
Two Adhoc officials appeared before the Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday for additional questioning, with both continuing to deny charges they had bribed a witness. Nay Vanda and Ny Sokha, senior staffers at the human rights group, were questioned by judge Theam Chanpiseth, who grilled them about their interactions with Khom Chandaraty, the alleged mistress of opposition leader Kem Sokha.
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Duch Testifies He Knew of Everything at S-21
Despite telling the Khmer Rouge tribunal on Tuesday that his deputy held considerable autonomy over “smashings” at Phnom Penh’s S-21 security center, former prison chief Kaing Guek Eav refuted the idea that he was ever in the dark about the atrocities committed under his watch.
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Opposition Meets Detainees
Fifteen officials and opposition activists who have been charged and detained in prison appealed to party leaders yesterday to continue their campaign promoting human rights and the reduction of political tension. After a visit to Prey Sar prison yesterday, Eng Chhai Eang, a senior official and member of the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), said he had spoken to the 15 detainees.
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Sky Nice factory agrees to workers' demands
After two days of protests by about 300 workers, the Sky Nice International footwear factory in Phnom Penh has agreed to meet most of their demands – which included better benefits and wages. The employees’ main request was the reinstatement of three worker representatives. A company representative said Sky Nice had agreed to rehire two of the leaders and would consider reinstating the third.
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CNRP Not Allowed to Meet With Elected Officials in Prison
Ten opposition lawmakers were barred from meeting three elected officials at Phnom Penh’s Prey Sar prison on Tuesday, with prisons authorities saying they should have sought permission from the courts because criminal cases against each remain open. A spokesman for the court, however, said no such permission was needed and that such visits did not interfere with court procedures.
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CNRP again calls for CPP to resume talks
The Cambodia National Rescue Party yesterday once again called for the ruling party to reconsider negotiating a solution to the current political crisis, with the leadership of smaller parties also calling for the government to give the opposition a break. Speaking to reporters after a visit to Prey Sar prison to meet jailed CNRP activists, opposition lawmaker Eng Chhay Eang asked that the CPP resume the so-called culture of dialogue.
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Duch questioned about plots against DK regime
Former S-21 prison chief Kaing Guek Eav was probed on the arrests of upper level Khmer Rouge cadre suspected of spying for Vietnam and planning a coup d’état against the Pol Pot regime at the Khmer Rouge tribunal yesterday. Touching on an issue key to the defence of co-accused Nuon Chea – the regime’s former “Brother number two” – Eav, better known as Duch, was confronted with questions about alleged Vietnamese infiltration into the ranks. The Chea defence has argued that the Khmer Rouge was riven by competing factions, and faced a legitimate threat from Vietnam – a threat that Duch obliquely acknowledged.
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Workers protest for back pay after work stoppage
With their factory’s owner gone and production stopped, some 600 workers protested outside the RCI garment factory in Preah Sihanouk province yesterday saying they hadn’t been paid since May. An Rama, an official for the Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers’ Democratic Union, said production at the facility, which is set up in the Sihanoukville Special Economic Zone, stopped abruptly last month, with no announcement of the factory’s closure.
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PM Threatens Thumbprint Crackdown
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday threatened to take action if the thumbprints submitted in a Royal petition by the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) were found to be illegitimate. Speaking to students at the National Institute of Education’s Royal School of Administration graduation ceremony, Mr. Hun Sen said the possibility that the CNRP’s petition, which asks for intervention from the King in the increasingly volatile political landscape, was fraudulently assembled was contemptible.
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Police Arrest Four as Black Monday Campaign Continues
Four black-clad women were bundled kicking and screaming into police trucks on Monday, marking yet another Black Monday protest, as the campaign to have four rights workers and an election official released from prison entered its seventh week. At about 9 a.m., five activists from eviction-hit communities congregated near Phnom Penh International Airport in Pur Senchey district as dozens of police and district security guards surrounded the area.
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PM Refuses Joint Asean Stance
Prime Minister Hun Sen said yesterday that Cambodia will not join other Asean nations in supporting an upcoming verdict from the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague in a suit filed by the Philippines about continuing issues with China over the South China Sea. Speaking at a graduation ceremony in Phnom Penh, the premier said that regardless of the court’s decision, Cambodia would not accept or abide by it due to its political nature. The issue needs to be settled legally and not politically, Mr. Hun Sen told the crowd.
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PM contrite after helmetless moto jaunt
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday apologised after Facebook users pointed out that he had broken the law by riding a moto without a helmet in a video he posted to social media over the weekend. “We leaders always encourage the people to wear a helmet, but we ourselves do not, so please do not follow my bad example,” a follow-up Facebook post said yesterday.
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Local authorities to let awning at opposition HQ stand after talks
A commune official in the capital’s Meanchey district said an awning at the Cambodia National Rescue Party’s headquarters will not be removed after a party lawmaker reached out to the authorities. Keo Savoeun, commune chief for Chak Angre Leu, said the building’s awning on National Road 2, which officials had claimed was “illegal”, hadn’t been removed yet after lawmaker Ho Vann met with authorities to discuss their objections.
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Retrial for Boeung Kak Leader
A well-known Boeung Kak community activist was summoned to the Court of Appeal yesterday afternoon for a retrial of an assault case involving two motodop drivers in August, 2012. Yorm Bopha and her husband Lous Sakhorn were arrested in September of that year after she was accused of ordering her two brothers to beat two motodop drivers, Nget Chet and Vath Thaiseng, who were working in Boeung Kak’s village 21, with an axe and a screwdriver, seriously injuring the drivers’ heads in the process.
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Prince Calls Rainsy, Sokha Cowards
Prince Norodom Ranariddh called Cambodia National Rescue Party leaders Sam Rainsy and Kem Sokha cowards last week. The statement from the president of the Funcinpec Party came as Mr. Rainsy is in self-imposed exile evading years-old defamation charges and Mr. Sokha is holed up at his party headquarters evading arrest on charges relating to a prostitution case.
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Usual suspects taken in for ‘Black Monday’
The weekly routine of “Black Monday” arrests continued yesterday with four activists detained for eight hours for protesting “without permission” against the imprisonment of four human rights workers and an election official on widely criticised charges. Chray Nim, from land rights group SOS, said she was arrested at about 10:30am with Ngov Nary and Yim Srim, of the Borei Keila community, and former Boeung Kak resident Im Srey Touch by district police while the group was walking to SOS’s offices in Phnom Penh’s Por Sen Chey district.
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Hun Sen mocks opposition's prayers for rights
That was the message delivered yesterday by Prime Minister Hun Sen to the opposition, who on Sunday held a religious ceremony in Siem Reap to pray for their lawmakers’ parliamentary immunity to be respected, amid what’s widely seen as a politically motivated crackdown on the Cambodia National Rescue Party and government critics. Speaking to graduating students at the Royal School of Administration in Phnom Penh, the premier said the CNRP’s theatrics were unnecessary and unable to save its members from arrest if authorities determined they had broken the law.
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Hun Sen Launches Attack on CNRP Over ‘Contempt’ for King
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday launched an attack on the CNRP, criticizing the opposition for holding a prayer ceremony over the weekend and for its alleged “contempt” for the king in submitting petitions with duplicate thumbprints. The CNRP held a ceremony in Siem Reap City on Sunday to pray for a cooler political climate in the country after months of arrests of government critics and unfulfilled threats to put deputy opposition leader Kem Sokha behind bars.
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Cambodian border vendors see stalls ravaged by blaze
Three Cambodian vendors at the Rong Klue Market on the Cambodia-Thailand border lost all their merchandise after a fire erupted in the early hours on Monday and burned down four stores, an official said. Yal Bunpov, a border official stationed at Poipet, said the fire started at about 12:30am in the market, located in Thailand’s Aranh district, which borders Banteay Meanchey province.
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Bopha retried over assault allegations
The Appeal Court yesterday held a hearing in the retrial of Boeung Kak land activist Yorm Bopha (right), her ex-husband and her two brothers accused of attacking two motodops in 2012. Bopha, 32, was found guilty of ordering the attack and sentenced to three years in prison in 2012.
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