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Refugees From Nauru Move Out of Phnom Penh Villa
The first group of refugees to arrive in Cambodia as part of a controversial deal the government struck with Australia a year ago have moved out of their temporary accommodations in Phnom Penh, the Australian government said Thursday. Four refugees arrived in Phnom Penh from the South Pacific island of Nauru on June 4 and were immediately whisked off to a gated villa in the city’s south, where they were sequestered since.
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In Sweden, Cambodian Woman Wins World’s Children’s Prize
Cambodia’s Noun Phymean has won this year’s World’s Children’s Prize, chosen by children from around the globe, and the accompanying $50,000 award for her work offering free schooling and vocational training to some of Phnom Penh’s poorest young people. Ms. Phymean picked up her award at a ceremony in Sweden on Wednesday, joining the ranks of the prize’s 40-odd past laureates of the “Children’s Nobel Prize” since 2000, including last year’s winner, internationally renowned girls’ rights activist Malala Yousafzai.
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Official Facing Trial Over Facebook Post
An Information Ministry official has been charged with defamation over a Facebook post accusing a CPP senator of being the mistress of a military general, and has been summoned to trial on Monday. According to the October 5 summons, Prum San, deputy director of the ministry’s information department, posted the offending message about Senator Keo Mally on his Facebook page in July and was charged last month. “Prum San was charged with public defamation,” the summons says. “The court orders Prum San, 52, to come to stand trial at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on October 19.”
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First failure of Australia's $55 million Cambodia refugee plan
Bangkok: Cambodian officials say one of the refugees who arrived in Phnom Penh from Nauru in June has quit Cambodia and returned to Myanmar. The Rohingya Muslim man in his early 20s had been given refugee status on the basis of a fear of returning to Myanmar, where Rohingya say they have long been persecuted in the majority Buddhist government country. But Cambodia officials said the man became homesick for his native land. Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/first-failure-of-australias-55-million-cambodia-refugee-plan-20151016-gkb42q#ixzz3oiO2FiyF Follow us: @smh on Twitter | sydneymorningherald on Facebook
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Teenager Arrested for Rape of Neighbor, 12, in Battambang
A 14-year-old boy raped his 12-year-old neighbor on a cassava plantation in Battambang province on Wednesday after luring her away from her home, a police official said Thursday. The teenager was arrested at his house in Sampov Loun district’s Serei Meanchey commune that afternoon and confessed to raping the girl, according to deputy district police chief Ly Rum. “At about [noon], the girl’s mother left the house to visit her neighbor about 40 meters away and left her daughter alone,” Mr. Rum said. “Unexpectedly, the boy arrived [at the victim’s house] and convinced the girl to visit the cassava plantation nearby,” he said. “The girl agreed to go with the suspect because he promised to give her as much money as she wanted.”
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Ethnic Minority Villagers in Eastern Cambodia File Court Case Over Land Grab
ndigenous villagers in eastern Cambodia’s Mondulkiri province have filed a complaint in local court against military officers and a land speculator who forcibly confiscated more than 80 hectares (198 acres) of their land, an official from a rights group said Thursday. Phnong indigenous villagers from 44 families in the province’s Keo Seima district filed the complaint on Sept. 27 after the local military chief, Sak Sarun, and land speculator, Lek Ha, forced them from their homes and seized their rice fields in June, said Sok Ratha, provincial coordinator for the domestic rights group Adhoc. The seizures took place even though provincial authorities had issued the families certificates of ownership for the land, he said. Adhoc is intervening on behalf of the villagers to ask the provincial prosecutor to see that justice prevails in the dispute.
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In Cambodia, Some Families Still Try To 'Cure' LGBT Sons And Daughters
When Meas Sophanuth started to transition in high school, his mother -- afraid that her child would bring shame to the family -- tried to stop what she saw as his “unnatural” behavior. She took away his phone, kept him at home, and forbade him from seeing his friends. She finally took her son to a traditional healer, known in Cambodia as a Kru Khmer, in the hope that the shaman would be able to “cure” him.
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Update: Cambodia – Continuing judicial harassment against human rights defender
On 7 October 2015, Ms Chakrya, the wife of human rights defender Mr Ny Chakrya, received a subpoena on his behalf. It requests the human rights defender to appear before the Investigating Judge of the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on 21 October 2015. Ny Chakrya is Head of the Human Rights and Legal Aid Section of the Cambodian Human Rights and Development Association (ADHOC), which was founded in 1991 to monitor the protection of human rights, in particular of land and natural resources rights. ADHOC provides legal assistance to victims of land rights violations and engages in land rights advocacy through press statements and conferences, publication of thematic reports and cooperation with the National Human Rights Commission.
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Bus Worker Charged With Assault on UK Tourist
The Preah Sihanouk Provincial Court yesterday charged a bus driver’s assistant with indecent assault for inappropriately touching a female British tourist on a night bus on Tuesday, local police said.
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‘Official’ border maps found in New York
Outspoken opposition lawmaker Um Sam An yesterday declared he had discovered the “official maps” that should be used to demarcate Cambodia’s boundary with Vietnam in the United Nations’ New York library, a claim swiftly dismissed by the government. Sam An, who has accused the government of ceding land by using maps favourable to Vietnam, said the charts were the Bonne 1/100,000-scale ones printed by the French colonial Indochinese Geographical Service.
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Human Rights Advocate Summoned Over Defamation Charges
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court attempted to summon prominent human rights activist Ny Chakrya on Wednesday for questioning over charges of defamation and coercing judicial officials, but found only his wife at home. The court and Mr. Chakrya, the head of monitoring for rights group Adhoc, are of different minds over whether he is now obliged to heed the summons. The charges, which also include malicious denunciation, stem from public comments Mr. Chakrya made in May that a judge and a prosecutor had unlawfully arrested and imprisoned two farmers feuding with an agriculture firm near their village in Siem Reap province.
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EU electoral experts to arrive on October 18
Electoral computing experts from the European Union will arrive in Cambodia on October 18 to help the National Election Committee design its new electronic voter registration system, which is scheduled to launch next year. NEC official Kuoy Bunroeun said in an announcement that the EU experts will help design the registration procedure and aid in the creation of digital voter lists. The EU plans to spend $11.3 million over three years to boost election reform in Cambodia.
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Rights Groups Criticize UN as Montagnards Return to Vietnam
As 24 Montagnards returned to Vietnam on Thursday after Cambodia refused to process their asylum claims, rights groups criticized the U.N.’s refugee agency for assisting the government in repatriating the group to a country where they claim to have fled from persecution. The U.N. has said that more than 200 Montagnard asylum seekers have come to Phnom Penh over the past year, and are being taken care of by an NGO with the government refusing to process their applications.
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Compromise Remains Elusive in Minimum Wage Negotiations
Factory and union representatives remain as far apart as ever over where to set next year’s minimum wage for garment workers, now at $128 per month, after hours of heated negotiations Wednesday and a vote that seemed to settle nothing. Heading into the meeting of government, factory and union representatives, Labor Ministry spokesman Heng Sour said the 48-member working group—split evenly among the three sides—would vote on their proposals and send the winning number to the Labor Advisory Committee (LAC), which convenes Thursday.
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Another Areng activist arrested
A prominent Areng Valley activist joined three other environmentalists in jail yesterday in Koh Kong after being questioned at the provincial court about alleged “forest crimes”. Ven Vorn, 36, a community representative and commune councillor with the ruling Cambodian People’s Party, was arrested at the provincial court at about 12pm yesterday after being questioned by investigating judge Min Makara. Vorn has been charged with collecting forest products without permission and tampering with evidence. If found guilty, he could be sentenced to up to five years in prison.
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Election Law points discussed
he ruling Cambodian People’s Party wants to remove provisions in the Commune Election Law punishing intimidation, vote buying and partisan civil servants and soldiers, a round-table discussion on electoral reform heard yesterday. The punitive articles are among five points contested by CPP and Cambodia National Rescue Party working groups currently negotiating amendments to the 2007 Commune Election Law, according to Ket Khy, one of the CNRP’s negotiators. Khy said two articles, one punishing vote buying and candidate intimidation and the other penalising public employees and armed forces personnel for acting on behalf of parties, were in the crosshairs of the CPP.
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Group of Montagnards heads back to Vietnam
Twenty-four Montagnards are set to return to Vietnam today, becoming the first group to volunteer for repatriation since the government last month ordered the asylum seekers to leave of their own volition or be forcibly expelled, officials said. Chea Bunthoeun, Ratanakkiri province’s deputy police chief, said yesterday evening that the group had arrived in Banlung town, where they would spend the night before returning to Vietnam this morning. “The Interior Ministry’s officers and UNHCR [the UN Refugee Agency] have taken the 24 Montagnards from Phnom Penh to Ratanakkiri,” he said. “They volunteered to return to their own country.”
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NEC Unveils Details of Pilot Program for Voter Registration
The National Election Committee (NEC) on Tuesday revealed more details about its pilot project to test biometric voter registration in each of the provinces beginning on November 1 ahead of nationwide registration next year. About 32,500 people will be unofficially registered during the two-week pilot, according to a statement from the NEC, with one commune selected from each of the 24 provinces and Phnom Penh, and a mixture of rural and urban communes selected so that the results are representative.
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Septuagenarian busted over alleged child rape
A 75-year-old man has been charged by the Stung Treng Provincial Court with repeatedly raping a 9-year-old girl after an alleged string of incidents that began in September. According to Strung Treng provincial police penal bureau chief Doung Vutha, the suspect, named as Ban Puth, was arrested on Monday after the victim’s mother filed a complaint to the court. Vutha said that the victim and her mother had no fixed address, and had reportedly been staying at the home of the suspect in Sesan district’s Kbal Romea commune.
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Elderly Man Charged With Rape of 9-Year-Old in Stung Treng
The Stung Treng Provincial Court on Tuesday charged a 70-year-old man with raping a 9-year-old neighbor in Sesan district, after the girl told her parents of the crime despite the man’s death threats. Ban Puth was charged with raping the young girl on a number of occasions up to September 18. He was arrested Monday and has since confessed to both police and to the court, said deputy provincial prosecutor Sun Yeth. “The court charged the offender with raping a child. Now we are detaining him in prison,” she said.
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