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Third Bi-Annual Report: Fair Trail Rights - One Year Progress
This bi-annual report on fair trial rights in Camboidia (the "Report") is an output of the Cambodia Trial Monitoring Project (the "Project"), implemented by the Cambodian Center for Human Rights ("CCHR"). It presents and analyzes data collected from the monitoring of 585 trials involving 1029 accused at Phnom Penh Capital Court of First Instance (the "Phnom Penh Court") and Kandal Provincial Court of First Instance (the "Kandal Court") between July 1 and December 31, 2010 (the "Third Reporting Period"). This is the third bi-annual Report"), in July 2010 and second bi-annual report (the "Second Bi-annual Reprot"), in March 2011.
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Judicial Intimidation of a Lawyer Representing an Opposition Party Activist
On 29 December 2011, Mr Choung Chou-Ngy was charged under Article 565 of the 2009 Criminal Code of the Kingdom of Cambodia (the “Penal Code”) – “Provision of Means for Escape”. This charge has been brought in response to the release of Mr Choung Chou-Ngy’s client, Mr Meas Peng, deputy chief of Banteay Dek commune in Kandal province’s Kien Svay district, from prison on 23 September 2011. The Cambodia Daily reported that the Kandal provincial court found that Mr Choung Chou-Ngy’s actions in helping his client to be released from prison were not in accordance with the laws of his profession, and that they in fact constituted helping his client to escape – a penal offense. The Kandal provincial court has since confirmed that Mr Choung Chou-Ngy has been charged.
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Judicial Intimidation of a Lawyer Representing an Opposition Party Activist
On 29 December 2011, Mr Choung Chou-Ngy was charged under Article 565 of the 2009 Criminal Code of the Kingdom of Cambodia (the “Penal Code”) – “Provision of Means for Escape”. This charge has been brought in response to the release of Mr Choung Chou-Ngy’s client, Mr Meas Peng, deputy chief of Banteay Dek commune in Kandal province’s Kien Svay district, from prison on 23 September 2011. The Cambodia Daily reported that the Kandal provincial court found that Mr Choung Chou-Ngy’s actions in helping his client to be released from prison were not in accordance with the laws of his profession, and that they in fact constituted helping his client to escape – a penal offense. The Kandal provincial court has since confirmed that Mr Choung Chou-Ngy has been charged.
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Civil Society Groups Condemn Violent Eviction of Borei Keila Residents
January 3, 2012 - HRTF, CYN, IDEA, BABC, CLEC, BKLW, ACRP, CCFC, FADP, PLCN and LICADHO strongly condemns today’s violent destruction of the homes of some 300 families living in Phnom Penh’s Borei Keila settlement. The destruction of these homes marks yet another sad turn for a development that was once promoted as a model alternative to the eviction and off-site relocation of the Phnom Penh’s urban poor.
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Civil Society Groups Condemn Violent Eviction of Borei Keila Residents
January 3, 2012 - HRTF, CYN, IDEA, BABC, CLEC, BKLW, ACRP, CCFC, FADP, PLCN and LICADHO strongly condemns today’s violent destruction of the homes of some 300 families living in Phnom Penh’s Borei Keila settlement. The destruction of these homes marks yet another sad turn for a development that was once promoted as a model alternative to the eviction and off-site relocation of the Phnom Penh’s urban poor.
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Civil Society Groups Condemn Violent Eviction of Borei Keila Residents
January 3, 2012 - HRTF, CYN, IDEA, BABC, CLEC, BKLW, ACRP, CCFC, FADP, PLCN and LICADHO strongly condemns today’s violent destruction of the homes of some 300 families living in Phnom Penh’s Borei Keila settlement. The destruction of these homes marks yet another sad turn for a development that was once promoted as a model alternative to the eviction and off-site relocation of the Phnom Penh’s urban poor.
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Judicial Intimidation of a Lawyer Representing an Opposition Party Activist
On 29 December 2011, Mr Choung Chou-Ngy was charged under Article 565 of the 2009 Criminal Code of the Kingdom of Cambodia (the “Penal Code”) – “Provision of Means for Escape”. This charge has been brought in response to the release of Mr Choung Chou-Ngy’s client, Mr Meas Peng, deputy chief of Banteay Dek commune in Kandal province’s Kien Svay district, from prison on 23 September 2011. The Cambodia Daily reported that the Kandal provincial court found that Mr Choung Chou-Ngy’s actions in helping his client to be released from prison were not in accordance with the laws of his profession, and that they in fact constituted helping his client to escape – a penal offense. The Kandal provincial court has since confirmed that Mr Choung Chou-Ngy has been charged.
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Judicial Intimidation of a Lawyer Representing an Opposition Party Activist
On 29 December 2011, Mr Choung Chou-Ngy was charged under Article 565 of the 2009 Criminal Code of the Kingdom of Cambodia (the “Penal Code”) – “Provision of Means for Escape”. This charge has been brought in response to the release of Mr Choung Chou-Ngy’s client, Mr Meas Peng, deputy chief of Banteay Dek commune in Kandal province’s Kien Svay district, from prison on 23 September 2011. The Cambodia Daily reported that the Kandal provincial court found that Mr Choung Chou-Ngy’s actions in helping his client to be released from prison were not in accordance with the laws of his profession, and that they in fact constituted helping his client to escape – a penal offense. The Kandal provincial court has since confirmed that Mr Choung Chou-Ngy has been charged.
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