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NGO Cancels Prison Visit Over Government Restrictions
Rights group Licadho says it is canceling its annual prison visits on international Human Rights Day, which this year falls on Thursday, for the first time in two decades in protest over what it says are new government restrictions.
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Rainsy Misses Court Date Over Conspiracy Charges
As expected, opposition leader Sam Rainsy failed to show up at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court for a scheduled questioning date on Friday, as he remains abroad after being hit with a slew of criminal charges and an arrest warrant in recent weeks.
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Anti-violence campaign closes
The Cambodian arm of a worldwide, 16-day campaign to end violence against women wrapped up yesterday with a mass dance – attended by Prime Minister Hun Sen’s son, Hun Many – at the capital’s Wat Botum Park. In addition to speakers from the UN and Ministry of Women’s Affairs, the event saw youth performers join with NGOs and the public in what organisers called a unified stance against gender-based violence.
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Government Undecided on New Resettlement Sites for Evictees
A Finance Ministry official said on Sunday that the government had yet to decide whether it would comply with Asian Development Bank (ADB) rules that families facing eviction from along the country’s old railway tracks be offered resettlement options better than the ones they have now.
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Activists detained in Koh Kong
Environmental activists and community members in Koh Kong province were yesterday detained by guards from a sand dredging company while documenting the firm’s activities. Two activists from local environmental group Mother Nature – Nhek Nitra and Mot Kimry – were briefly held along with community members Kheiu Sales, Mot Thary and Loek Socheata. A British filmmaker and journalist, Rod Harbinson, was also detained with the group in Trapaing Roung commune’s Koh Kong Knong village.
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US Lawmakers Call for End to ‘Persecution’ of Opposition
Sixteen U.S. lawmakers have written to Prime Minister Hun Sen to add their voices to a multitude of recent appeals for the restoration of a democratic environment in Cambodia and for the rescinding of the arrest warrant issued for opposition leader Sam Rainsy.
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Villagers face court over ELC protest
The Preah Vihear Provincial Court has ordered nine villagers to appear on Wednesday to respond to allegations that they dismantled the office of a Malaysian rubber plantation company five months ago. The nine villagers and 300 protesters allegedly pried the wooden walls off of a building housing the Eminent Elite (Cambodia) Co Ltd office in June after the company continued clearing a road through the area over their objections.
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Sokha Warns Youth Against Provocative Use of Facebook
Deputy opposition leader Kem Sokha on Thursday told a conference of the CNRP’s provincial youth leaders to be careful with what they post on Facebook, asking them to remain polite in political arguments to prevent provoking any trouble with the ruling CPP.
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Ratanakkiri Court Rejects Petition Over Dispute
More than 200 people living on a contested plot of land in Ratanakkiri province on Thursday lodged a petition with the provincial court calling for the release of three community leaders who were convicted and jailed on Wednesday over a dispute with a wealthy businessman, a rights workers and court official said.
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NGOs Say NEC Has to Work on Speed, Efficiency of Voter List
The National Election Committee’s $1 million pilot project last month to test its new computerized voter registration system revealed that the registration process is inefficient and needs to be sped up, a group of NGOs calling itself the Electoral Reform Alliance (ERA) said at a press conference on Thursday.
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Gov't touts internet record despite telecom bill concerns
Government officials defended the Kingdom’s record on internet freedom yesterday, despite concerns that recent and proposed legislation could curtail the rights of those speaking out online. Addressing a conference on the issue in Phnom Penh, Meas Sophorn, undersecretary of state at the Ministry of Information, said Cambodia’s record on online speech compared favourably to other countries in the region.
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Voter registration trial praised in spite of setbacks
The Electoral Reform Alliance yesterday held a roundtable discussion to pore over the results of a two-week trial of a new voter registration system. In November, the National Election Commission set out to register about 32,526 people using a new electronic kit.
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CNRP youth get message from Sokha
Two hundred opposition youth activists converged at the CNRP's Phnom Penh headquarters yesterday to meet with party leaders and discuss the recent escalation in political tensions. During the three-hour meeting, Cambodia National Rescue Party acting president Kem Sokha counselled “maturity and patience” and urged the 200 attendees to register to vote as soon as possible, said party spokesman Yim Sovann.
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Labour law delayed after protests
The government has agreed to delay the passage of a controversial law governing the trade union sector, announcing it would set up a national workshop to work out the legislation’s thornier clauses on December 15. The decision comes after repeated protestations from a coalition of 23 union groups that gathered in front of the National Assembly again yesterday demanding changes to the law and a meeting on Monday with assembly President Heng Samrin.
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After court storming, appeals to be sped up
Authorities have vowed to expedite the appeal of three community representatives whose fellow villagers stormed Ratanakkiri’s provincial courthouse on Wednesday after the trio was jailed over a land dispute, according to a local human rights worker. Supporters of Chroeung Touch, Em Chan and Sort Soeun, community representatives from Bakeo district’s Keh Chung commune, yesterday stayed in the provincial capital to continue lobbying for their release.
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KRT witness tells of Vietnamese wife’s fate
Civil party Prak Doeun described the segregation, deportation and at times murder of ethnic Vietnamese – including his own wife and children – at the Khmer Rouge tribunal yesterday. In 1966, Doeun, an 18-year-old Khmer, married Bou Samban, a Cambodian woman of Vietnamese mixed descent from the same Boribor district village. Together, they had five daughters, and a son who was born after 1975.
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Website Names Hidden Hands Behind the News
Cambodians generally accept media reports as fact and, despite a surging reliance on the Internet for news, many are still getting information from traditional media outlets aligned with the ruling CPP, according to new research conducted by two freedom-of-information organizations.
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Rainsy Hit With Third Court Case in Three Weeks
National Assembly President Heng Samrin has become the latest government official to accuse opposition leader Sam Rainsy of defamation, with a lawyer for the ex-president filing a complaint against Mr. Rainsy over false claims that the 1980s communist regime sentenced King Norodom Sihanouk to death.
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Three Sentenced to Two Years Over Land Dispute in Ratanakkiri
Three villagers in Ratanakkiri province were on Wednesday sentenced to two years in prison after being summarily tried and convicted for land-grabbing offenses over a dispute with a civil servant from Phnom Penh, according to a court official.
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New charge for Rainsy
The third legal case in as many weeks has been brought against beleaguered opposition leader Sam Rainsy, who remains in self-imposed exile in France. Phnom Penh Municipal Court deputy prosecutor Vong Bunvisoth on Tuesday ordered Rainsy to appear for questioning on January 4 over accusations he defamed National Assembly President Heng Samrin in a November 17 Facebook post.
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