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Cambodian Merchants Injure Thai Officers During Counterfeit Raid
About 100 Cambodian merchants doing businesses in Thailand’s Thai Rong Kluea Market protested and later clashed with Thai police during an attempted confiscation of counterfeit goods yesterday morning, injuring multiple officers, according to a Banteay Meanchey provincial human rights monitor. Sum Chankea, Banteay Meanchey provincial coordinator with rights group Adhoc, said, “This is not the first time that the Thai authorities confiscated illegal goods owned by Cambodians. Before, they would confiscate trucks of goods, accounting for big losses. However, after the Thais checked about two stalls this morning, the merchants gathered and protested, leading to verbal arguments and stone-throwing.”
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Free unionists, FTU pleads
The Free Trade Union has sent a letter to police seeking the release of two union officials arrested on Tuesday over protests at the Cerie garment factory in Kampong Speu province. On Tuesday morning, plainclothes police arrested Yung Leap, a national FTU member, and Toch Srun, the leader of Cerie’s FTU branch, shortly after a protest in front of the Under Armour supplier in Samrong Tong district.
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Rainsy Calls for Overseas Voting for Cambodians; CPP Balks
With the CPP in the midst of a campaign to woo overseas support, CNRP leader Sam Rainsy told opposition supporters in Toronto over the weekend that it was now time for the ruling party to allow Cambodians living abroad to vote.
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Couple Receives Minimum Sentence for Child Labor Ring
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Wednesday handed down the minimum prison sentence of two years to a couple arrested in September for paying to take more than 20 children from their parents and forcing them to sell fruit throughout the night on Phnom Penh’s streets and at beer gardens.
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Cambodians ‘in custody’ in Malaysia
Three Cambodian migrants are reportedly being held by Malaysian immigration authorities after complaining of poor working conditions at a house-cleaning company they had been connected with through a Cambodian overseas recruitment firm. Mao Na, 42, said that her daughter, Tha Siney, 21, migrated alongside six women from Tamoul Grom village in Kampong Chhnang province to Malaysia to work with the H2O cleaning company through APTSE & C Cambodia Resource company last May.
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Timberland Parent Company Investigating Cleaver Attack Claims
The parent company of U.S. apparel giant Timberland has launched an investigation into claims that security guards at a special economic zone in Kandal province viciously attacked the workers that make the brand’s clothing and footwear, a company representative said Wednesday. Eight workers from the Star Light Apparel Manufacturing factory inside the 7NG Special Economic Zone (SEZ) were injured when about 40 SEZ security guards and hired thugs attacked them with meat cleavers and steel pipes as they attempted to board trucks on their way to a protest in Phnom Penh on Monday, union representatives said.
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Cleared by International Bar Assn, Khieu Samphan’s Lawyers Turn Fire on ECCC
The lawyers for convicted war criminal Khieu Samphan on Tuesday wrote a scathing critique of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), accusing the judges of a “complete lack of understanding” and bias against the defense. In 2014 the ECCC accused Mr. Samphan’s defenders of obstructing his trial when they skipped a series of hearings. These accusations were later dismissed by disciplinary hearings in France and Cambodia. Problems between Mr. Samphan’s lawyers and the court first arose in the fall of 2014, when the lawyers – Kong Sam Onn, Anta Guissé, and Arthur Vercken – boycotted several weeks of trial hearings for their client. They said they needed time to draft his appeal brief, but the ECCC called this excuse “frivolous.”
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Couple Running Child-labor Ring Jailed
A husband and wife were sentenced to two years in prison each by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday for forcing 19 children – aged seven to 17 – to work in unhealthy and dangerous circumstances. Chea Sady, 28, and his wife, Then Vanthai, 30, were convicted of violating Article 339 of the Penal Code, which makes it a felony to “subject a minor to working conditions harmful to children’s health and physical development.”
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Cleared by International Bar Assn, Khieu Samphan’s Lawyers Turn Fire on ECCC
The lawyers for convicted war criminal Khieu Samphan on Tuesday wrote a scathing critique of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), accusing the judges of a “complete lack of understanding” and bias against the defense. In 2014 the ECCC accused Mr. Samphan’s defenders of obstructing his trial when they skipped a series of hearings. These accusations were later dismissed by disciplinary hearings in France and Cambodia. Problems between Mr. Samphan’s lawyers and the court first arose in the fall of 2014, when the lawyers – Kong Sam Onn, Anta Guissé, and Arthur Vercken – boycotted several weeks of trial hearings for their client. They said they needed time to draft his appeal brief, but the ECCC called this excuse “frivolous.”
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Law needed to protect informants
Transperancy International Cambodia yesterday called on the authorities to fulfill their commitment to the introduction of a whistleblower law, saying it would be key in protecting those who otherwise might not call out corruption.
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Three Women to Return Home After Trafficking Scam Near Miss
Cambodian officials collaborated with Vietnamese authorities to rescued three women attempting to enter China yesterday, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The women believed they would marry Chinese men on their arrival, but according to authorities, had been deceived and were in fact headed straight for harms way. The women had arranged the border crossings with brokers in Cambodia. They were intercepted with the help of the Cambodian ambassador to Hanoi, who is also helping facilitate the women’s return to the Kingdom.
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KPP chief's defamation case against Namhong tossed by judge
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court has thrown out out a defamation lawsuit filed last month by political party president Sourn Serey Ratha against Foreign Minister Hor Namhong. According to a letter from prosecutor Meas Chanpiseth, Serey Ratha’s case was dropped on January 29. The letter did not specify on what grounds the suit was rejected.
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Pol’s border letter rejected
Opposition lawmaker Um Sam An took aim at National Assembly President Heng Samrin yesterday for refusing to pass on a letter to Prime Minister Hun Sen requesting an investigation into land concessions in Ratanakkiri province that Sam An says is controlled by the Vietnamese military. In the letter, Sam An, who has long accused the government of being complicit in Vietnamese encroachment, asserts that the Vietnamese military holds about 40,000 hectares of economic land concessions (ELCs) in Ratanakkiri and plans to establish a military base, a breach of Cambodia’s constitution.
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Unionists arrested over Kampong Speu demonstration
Two union officials were arrested by plainclothes police in Kampong Speu province yesterday shortly after a protest at a garment factory over anti-union discrimination. Workers at the Chinese-owned Cerie (Cambodia) factory in Samrong Tong district have been protesting for almost a month against the firing of three unionists who tried to organise workers at the factory.
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Kampong Speu villagers block road they say companies damaged
A hundred people from 10 villages in Kampong Speu on Monday blocked a road to a mountain where construction supply companies operate rock quarries. Villagers had complained for years that three companies damaged the road with their trucks but avoided paying compensation despite promises.
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Witness Tells Khmer Rouge Tribunal of ‘Hatred’ Toward Vietnamese
The Khmer Rouge tribunal heard testimony on Tuesday from a military commander involved in Pol Pot’s capture of Phnom Penh in 1975 who later commanded naval units patrolling Cambodian waters off Koh Kong province. Meas Voeun was the deputy commander of the Division 1 military unit from early 1976 until August 1978. According to Victor Koppe, a defense lawyer for Nuon Chea, Mr. Voeun held a “similar position” to Heng Samrin, the current president of the National Assembly, when Phnom Penh was taken.
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Land row meet yields no answers, new meeting
A group of Boeung Chhouk village residents being asked to vacate to make room for a new road met yesterday with a senior Council of Ministers official in a bid to resolve the long-running dispute. However, they walked away with nothing but the possibility of another meeting. During the sit-down with Senior Minister Khun Hang, 12 representatives of the community, where four homes have already been destroyed, once again asked the government for land titles and on-site development.
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Union Officials Arrested after Kampong Speu Protest
After burning tires in front of the Cerie (Cambodia) Garment factory in protest of the factory’s firing of three union representatives early last month, two Free Trade Union (FTU) officials were arrested yesterday morning and ordered to appear at Kampong Speu provincial court, according to police. “The provincial deputy prosecutor, Soeu Langdy, ordered our police officials to take the FTU officials who were involved in causing violence and incitement along with the workers in the Cerie (Cambodia) Garment factory,” said Nhem Sao, Kampong Speu provincial deputy police chief.
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PM takes lead in Facebook ‘like’ battle
Prime Minister Hun Sen has struck another blow in his running social media popularity battle with opposition leader Sam Rainsy, surpassing the Cambodia National Rescue Party president’s number of likes on Facebook, though the opposition has suggested “fake accounts” could have played a role. As of yesterday, the premier’s personal Facebook page, which he officially endorsed in September, stood at 2.11 million likes, leading Rainsy’s, which sits at 2.09 million.
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Kampong Speu Protest over Unpaved Road Disbands on Second Day
The number of villagers blocking a road in Kampong Speu province more than doubled yesterday morning following a protest that began on Monday. Local residents have been complaining about area mining companies’ alleged destruction of a widely used road. The dispersal of the protest came after villagers allegedly reached an agreement with the mining companies as well as local government authorities regarding their road, which they said has been damaged by overloaded trucks driving on it, being replaced with a new, paved one.
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