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Kandal cops on the lam after fatal beating
owever, as CCHR’s advocacy director Piseth Duch noted yesterday, the Ministry of Interior “currently lacks practices to investigate police conduct”. “We see very few cases of the Ministry of Interior performing thorough investigations of police officers who break the law, she said, pointing to an October beating that left two parliamentarians seriously injured.
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Activist monk ‘in hiding’, says friend
But Buntenh, an activist monk and member of the funeral committee for slain political analyst Kem Ley, has gone into hiding after receiving a tip off that he was being hunted by authorities, according to a friend and local media reports.
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NEC needs to step up education efforts: watchdog
Election watchdog Comfrel has called on the National Election Committee to step up its efforts to educate the public about the upcoming voter registration period. Comfrel director Koul Phana yesterday expressed concern that the NEC has not begun its voter registration information dissemination, particularly via TV announcements – which remain the primary resource for people in the provinces, he said.
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‘Black Monday’ Activists Blocked From Marching
“Black Monday” activists tussled with dozens of police officers and government security guards on Monday after they were blocked while marching in support of National Election Committee official Ny Chakrya, who is facing charges in a civil defamation case widely believed to be politically motivated.
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Commission Asked to Research Immunity
The National Assembly (NA) has assigned the Commission on Legislation and Justice to investigate a request by the Justice Ministry to lift the immunity of two members of the opposition allegedly involved in a prostitution case related to the sex scandal of acting opposition leader Kem Sokha.
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Kem Ley's ‘politicised’ funeral extended
The body of murdered commentator Kem Ley will remain at the capital’s Wat Chas pagoda until Sunday, when it will be transported for burial in his home province of Takeo. But government officials yesterday lamented that they were not welcome to attend the funeral, saying Ley’s death had been hijacked to serve the politics of the opposition.
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National Assembly Defends Rainsy’s Expulsion
The National Assembly did not know opposition leader Sam Rainsy had a standing defamation conviction when it allowed him to join the legislature in August 2014 and quickly moved to rectify that decision when it found out last year, its spokesman said on Monday in justifying the expulsion of the exiled lawmaker.
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Hearing for NEC's Chakrya postponed
The defamation case against National Election Committee deputy secretary-general Ny Chakrya was postponed yesterday after the complainants failed to show up. Chakrya arrived at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court in an orange jumpsuit as he is currently being held in pre-trial detention over allegations he colluded with four Adhoc staffers to bribe CNRP acting president Kem Sokha’s alleged mistress.
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Eighty faint at Kandal garment factory
About 80 garment workers at a factory in Kandal province’s Ang Snuol district fainted yesterday after seeing a co-worker collapse. Workers at the Grand East Footwear factory said that they saw Hor Seng Houng sprint away from the factory floor after she had experienced difficulty breathing and then proceeded to faint, which prompted the other workers to follow suit.
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Court Officials’ Lawsuit Against Election Official Pushed Back
A judge postponed the start of a defamation trial against National Election Committee official Ny Chakrya on Monday after the two Siem Reap court officials who brought the case against him failed to show up at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court.
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Council tables decision on CNRP lawmakers' immunity
The National Assembly’s Standing Committee yesterday deferred a decision on whether to strip immunity from two CNRP lawmakers, instead sending the matter to a parliamentary committee for consideration, with a CPP lawmaker reiterating that any eventual move would require a two-thirds vote of parliament.
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Wetlands threatened by coastal land grabs
The Council of Ministers has urged the Ministry of Land Management to crack down on coastal land grabbing in response to a report that found the practice was destroying the Kingdom’s wetlands.
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Gov’t: Threats Keeping Us From Funeral
Information Minister Khieu Kanharith has slammed those running the funeral arrangements for prominent researcher Kem Ley, one of whom is Mr. Ley’s grieving wife Bou Rachna, for “not allowing” government officials and National Assembly members to pay their respects.
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Chakrya Defamation Case Gets Postponed
Proceedings in a defamation case against National Election Committee Deputy Secretary General Ny Chakrya will be postponed indefinitely following the filing of a complaint to the Appeal Court by the defense yesterday.
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Army to Guard Voting Stations Armed troops will be on guard at voting stations around the country, according to a government order released yesterday. KT/Chor Sokunthea
Voters in next year’s elections will now have to make their choices under the watchful eye of the army after the government issued a decree yesterday establishing permanent military forces at national and sub-national election sites between 2016 and 2019.
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Residents Assemble after Land Dispute
About 10 residents of Kandal province’s Mok Kampol district gathered in front of the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction yesterday morning to ask for intervention from officials in an ongoing land dispute.
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CNRP ‘on right track’, says Sokha on party's anniversary
Amid an increasingly tense political environment, members of the Cambodia National Rescue Party yesterday seized the opportunity to celebrate the fourth anniversary of the merger that brought the party into existence.
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US State Department Official Visits Sokha
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Tom Malinowski visited deputy opposition leader Kem Sokha on Monday inside the CNRP’s headquarters in Phnom Penh, where he has been hiding for nearly two months amid threats by the prime minister to imprison him for life.
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Witnesses Tell of Suspected Assassin’s Flight
After allegedly executing political analyst Kem Ley at a gas station in Phnom Penh, witnesses say Oeuth Ang strode down Mao Tse Toung and Sothearos boulevards, alternatingly brandishing and concealing a pistol as ever more motorbikes jumped on his trail.
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Gov’t to ask Thailand to look after fishermen
The Cambodian Human Rights Committee plans to ask Thailand to implement safety protections for Cambodian fishermen working in Thailand. CHRC head Keo Remy said on Wednesday the move was prompted by the recent repatriation of Cambodian fishermen who were enslaved on a Thai fishing boat. He said the request to Thailand’s National Human Rights Commission would call for the protection of fishermen’s rights. However, he declined to detail the specific measures because the request was still being drafted.
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