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Separate Cases of Child Rape Heard at Court
Two men accused in separate cases of raping girls under the age of 15 had their cases heard in closed-door hearings at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday.
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http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/asia/420874/six-cambodian-opposition-politicians-charged-with-insurrection
Six Cambodian opposition politicians were charged Wednesday with insurrection, punishable by up to 30 years in prison, as their party warned of an attempt to "destroy democracy".
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Police Arrest Four CNRP Leaders Over Violent Protest
Four opposition CNRP lawmakers-election were arrested and held at municipal police headquarters overnight after violent clashes broke out in the morning between district security guards and opposition protesters near Phnom Penh’s heavily security Freedom Park.
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Trafficking Victims Told to Find Own Compensation
Men who were trafficked to work in slave-like conditions on fishing boats will be deprived of court-ordered compensation unless their lawyers can locate assets in Cambodia belonging to the Taiwanese citizens who were found guilty of trafficking them, court and Ministry of Justice officials said yesterday.
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Accused Trafficker Denies Sending Teen to Chinese Brothels
Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday heard the case of a 37-year-old woman accused of trafficking a 19-year-old to work in brothels in China.
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Maid Decides to Drop Sexual Assault Claim to Return Home
A woman who had been part of the Ministry of Labor’s pilot program to send domestic workers to Singapore returned to Cambodia yesterday after withdrawing a sexual assault complaint.
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Court Files Child Rape Charges
An alleged child rapist in Battambang province was charged by the provincial court yesterday with raping a monitor after police linked him to the assault of a 6-year-old girl.
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Trade Unions Approve Minimum Wage, Draft Law Proposal
Representatives from 25 trade unions yesterday sent a request to the Ministry of Labor seeking several changes to a controversial draft union law and asking that a new $160 monthly minimum wage for the country’s volatile garment sector take effect in October.
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In Court, Man Denies Rape of 19-Year-Old Girlfriend
A 21-year-old man arrested in March for the alleged rape of his girlfriend denied the charge during his trial at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday.
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Unions to Stick With Push for $160 Wage
The majority of union representatives attending a minimum wage forum yesterday favored pushing for a $160 floor wage for Cambodia’s garment sector next year.
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Freedom Park Braces for Violence
Elected lawmakers from the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party will be beaten by security forces if they are perceived to be violating the law during their visit to Freedom Park this morning, the Ministry of Interior said yesterday.
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Woman Sent to China Sold ‘As Sex Slave’
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday heard the brutal testimony of a 19-year-old Cambodian woman who was allegedly trafficked to China as a for-purchase bride last year, where she says she was repeatedly raped and beaten by three different men who “bought” her, one after the other, in Jiangxi province.
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Victim Was ‘Forced to Drink’ Wine
The case of two men who are accused of raping a beer promoter in the capital in March was heard in Phnom Penh.
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UN Special Rapporteur Concerns on Drafted Laws
The three laws on the organization and functioning of the Supreme Council of Magistracy, the Law on the Status of Judges and Prosecutors, and the Law on the Organization of the Courts are now awaiting King Norodom Sihamoni to sign them into law.
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In Cambodia, Dozens of Security Guards Are Hurt in an Opposition Crackdown
Three opposition MPs-elect were also arrested in the melee in Phnom Penh's Freedom Park
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Legal Experts: Cambodia Judicial Laws of 'Deep Concern'
International legal experts are expressing deep concern over proposed changes to Cambodia’s legal system that critics say hand over too much power to the executive. At a meeting in Phnom Penh Tuesday, a group recommended the three judicial reform laws should be returned to parliament for further discussion. The proposed legislation is currently with Cambodia’s king awaiting his signature to become law.
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NGOs to Petition King Over Judicial Laws
A group of civil society organizations will petition to King Norodom Sihamoni today, calling on the king to without his signature from three judicial laws that they say will entrench the ruling CPP’s control of the courts and jeopardize citizen’s constitutional freedom.
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After Factory Ignores Ruling, Garment Workers to March
Employee of the Ocean factory in Phnom Penh’s Por Senchey district continued to protest yesterday against management’s decision to ignore an Arbitration Council ruling on owned wages.
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Krom Groups Headed Back to Embassy
Khmer Krom organizations and activists are calling for another protest outside the Vietnamese Embassy on July 21 following what was perceived as an inflammatory remark by an embassy spokesman.
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Villagers Force Dam to Open Sluice Gate
More than 100 villagers in Battambang province’s Sangke district whose rice crops are threatened by drought protested twice last week, calling on authorities to force the Chinese company building an irrigation dam in the area to open the sluice gate to flood the parched farmlands, villagers and officials said.
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