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Immunity question moves to fore
The night before violence broke out at Freedom Park on Tuesday, Interior Ministry spokesman Khieu Sopheak took pains to assert that opposition lawmakers-elect, who have not taken their seats at the National Assembly in protest, do not have parliamentary immunity and could, therefore, have the law “imposed with force” against them.
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Cambodia: Drop Cases Against Opposition Politicians
(New York) – Cambodian authorities should drop trumped-up charges against six leading opposition politicians and immediately and unconditionally release them, Human Rights Watch said today. On July 16, 2014, a Phnom Penh court charged elected members of parliament of the Cambodian National Rescue Party (CNRP) with insurrection, intentional violence, and obstructing government officials.
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Arbitration group weighs in
Cambodia’s Arbitration Council yesterday called Ocean Garment factory’s continued refusal to abide by the boy’s decision last week to pay workers their full salary during a temporary closure “discouraging”.
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Shoe Factory Worker Strike for Seven Demands
About 1,000 workers from the Sun Well Shoes factory went to strike for the second day running yesterday appealing for wage benefits and better safety equipment.
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Six CNRP Members in Jail. Ten face charges that include ‘incitement’
Ten opposition members, including seven elected lawmakers, were charged yesterday by Phnom Penh Municipal Court with crimes ranging from holding an illegal demonstration to insurrection over their alleged roles in a violent protest at Freedom Park on Tuesday.
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Border Police Officer Charged with Rape
A border police officer was charged yesterday with rape under aggravating circumstance for allegedly raping a 16-year-old girl whom he held captive for 24 hours
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Pagoda Raid ‘Act of Intimidation’
Armed police raided the Wat Nek Vorn pagoda in the capital’s Toul Kork district on Tuesday night after some of its monks attended an opposition demonstration that descended into violence at Freedom Park earlier in the day.
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Worked End Blockade, Agree to Negotiations
Workers, said the union yesterday field an injunction at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court to prevent the factory owner from selling any equipment until the dispute is resolved.
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CNRP Officials Sent to Prison of Insurrection
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday charged at least seven opposition CNRP lawmakers elect and a party activist with insurrection and incitement over a protest that turned violent on Tuesday, sending six of the group to Prey Sar Prison.
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Executive Allegedly Threatens Workers with Gun
Employees of a Swedish-owned graphic design company refused to work yesterday and demand their director, who claims to be Ministry of Interior officials, be fired after he allegedly threatened them with a gun.
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Five Cambodian Opposition MPs, Youth Leader Detained Pending Trial
Five lawmakers from the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) and a youth leader were charged in court Wednesday with inciting violence and ordered detained pending trial after their followers clashed with security guards to force the reopening of Freedom Park in Phnom Penh.
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Firm’s Split From Boeng Kak Project Confirmed
The Chinese firm that was finically backing an ambitious project to develop Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak neighborhood has pulled out, Chinese Embassy and company officials have confirmed, and no other investor appears to have taken its place.
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Justice Still Eludes Fishermen
For more than two year, Sao Thy, was forced to work 20-hour days on a fishing vessel in Senegal, abandoned there by a recruitment agency that had promised him landscaping employment in Thailand.
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Tables Violently Turned
Another chapter of confrontation and violence was written at Phnom Penh’s Freedom Park yesterday – only this time the by now familiar narrative was flipped on its head.
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Workers Block Airport Road
Workers at Ocean Garment factory ramped up their protest yesterday against managers who have ignored an Arbitration Council ruling in the employees’ favor.
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NGOs Petition King Over Laws
Civil society groups made a last-ditch effort yesterday to stop three controversial judicial laws from being officially promulgated by handing over petitions to the Royal Palace asking King Norodom Sihamoni not to sign off on the bills.
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UN Expert Calls on King Block Judicial Laws
The U.N.’s special rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers yesterday joined civil society representatives in calling on King Norodom Sihamoni to block three judicial laws that they say will entrench the executive branch’s control over the courts.
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Garment Workers Block Road in Protest Over Unpaid Wages
Hundreds of Ocean Garment factory workers staged a sit-in on one Phnom Penh’s major thoroughfares yesterday to protest the factory’s failure to follow an Arbitration Council ruling on unpaid wages.
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Maid Claims Embassy Ignored Calls for Help
A domestic worker who claims she was sexually assaulted by the elderly man she was hired to care for in Singapore said yesterday that the Cambodian Embassy there ignored her call for help and instructed her to return to the home of her alleged abuser.
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