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Hundreds of Residents Protest Land Disputes in Pur Senchey, Russei Keo
Hundreds of Phnom Penh families protested in the capital on Monday, highlighting two ongoing and long-standing disputes in the city.
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Entertainment Workers Feel Neglected as Unemployment Remains Rampant
Gripped by uncertainty and frustration, entertainment workers across Cambodia have called on the government to provide better support as they struggle to make ends meet in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Journalists, Protesters Arrested Amid Claims of 4-Year-Old’s Detention
Two journalists in Kampot were arrested as residents protested for the release of their family members amid allegations that police had detained a 4-year-old child.
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Cambodian activist released after 14 months in harsh prison conditions
Underfed inmates at Cambodia’s Prey Sar prison suffer sleepless nights in unhygienic, overcrowded cells, unless they can pay corrupt prison guards to for enough room to lie down, an activist released this week after serving a 14-month stint at the prison told RFA.
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Activists released with sentences of ‘time served’
Sophal stated that the Phnom Penh Municipal Court held a series of hearings recently and announced verdicts on October 26 in criminal cases involving a number of defendants identified by civil society organisations and in some media reports as environmental or political activists.
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Two More Preah Sihanouk State-Land Plots Go to ‘Low-Key’ Businesswoman
To one side is state land Prime Minister Hun Sen recently transferred to his daughters. To the other is land given to a three-star general in Hun Sen’s bodyguard unit recently promoted to be his assistant, as well as to a notorious tycoon, the late Suy Sophan.
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Release of Autistic 16-year-old from Prison Delayed by Two Days
Officials at Correctional Center 2 have said that the release of Kak Sovann Chhay, the 16-year-old with autism whose arrest prompted outrage among human rights advocates, has been delayed until Nov. 10 after he was due to be released earlier today.
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Hun Sen urges resolution for land disputes in Monday address, warns analysts for Paris Peace Agreement commentary
As Prime Minister Hun Sen urged out-of-court settlements for land disputes during a Monday address on the grounds of the Ministry of Land Management, a crowd of about 100 families waited outside hoping to beseech the country’s top leader for help in disputes of their own.
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Another Activist Released: ‘If We Don’t Dare to Talk, Others Will Not’
A Khmer Thavrak activist, released from Prey Sar Prison after 14 months in jail, says she is concerned whether she will encounter difficulties finding work again as a cook.
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LGBTIQ Advocates Urge Same-Sex Marriage Reform
Civil society organizations have urged the Cambodian government to legalize same-sex marriage by amending the Constitution.
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Online Course on “Capacity Building on Human Rights Promotion and Protection Mechanism in Cambodia” by KOICA
Twenty-two (22) officials from the Cambodian Human Rights Committee (CHRC) will attend the week-long online course whose objective is to contribute to the achievement of the capacity to learn about the international human rights system and establish human rights policy, said KOICA in a press release AKP received this afternoon.
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Report on PPAs ‘the way forward for Cambodia’
The Cambodian Institute for Cooperation and Peace (CICP), and the Stimson Center yesterday virtually launched the report on “The Paris Peace Agreements: Looking Back and Moving Forward”, supported by the US Embassy here.
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Spokesperson rejects UN Special Rapporteur’s Cambodia press freedom report
Meas Sophorn, Under Secretary of State and Spokesperson at the Ministry of Information, has turned down a report by the UN Special Rapporteur on the press freedom in Cambodia.
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Worsening floods drive Dangkor residents from their homes
Families living in Phnom Penh’s Dangkor district have been forced to leave their homes after the Prek Tnaot river overflowed. Authorities have also said that the 7 Makara Dam in the city’s south has also been leaking after being damaged by the high level of rainfall.
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Opinion: Peace and Democracy in Cambodia—Reflections of a Friendly Observer
The signing of the Paris Peace Accords opened the way to an equally unprecedented engagement of the United Nations and the whole international community, including recently reunified Germany, to help rebuilding a country crushed by decades of internal and external conflicts.
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Ten Cambodian activists get 20-month sentences for peaceful protest
A court in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh sentenced 10 activists to 20-month sentences Tuesday on charges of incitement for their role in protests demanding the release of a prominent union leader, RFA has learned.
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Court sentences 14 youth activists and ex-CNRP officials of incitement
A group of 14 activists who were arrested last year for arranging protests in support of the jailed unionist Rong Chhun were convicted Tuesday of charges of incitement.
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Court hears Rong Chhun’s appeal against conviction for incitement
Phnom Penh Appeal Court yesterday heard the case of outspoken union chief Rong Chhun and two other social activists who were jailed for allegedly inciting people to go against the government after claiming Cambodia ceded land to Vietnam during the border demarcation in Tboung Khmum province.
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Monks Plant 22,000 Palm Trees to Protect Community Forest in Siem Reap
Since July 2021, monks from Phnom Preah Thevak Pagoda located in Banteay Srei District, Siem Reap Province have planted more than 20,000 palm seeds to create a border around a 63-hectare plot of community land.
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Activists Sentenced on Incitement Charges after Peaceful Protests
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Oct. 26 sentenced 10 detained activists to 20 months in prison and each received a 2 million riel, roughly $500, fine as a result of what the court viewed as “incitement.”
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