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Suspect Arrested in Rape and Murder of Tbong Khmum Teenager
A 41-year-old man was arrested in Tbong Khmum province on Friday as the lone suspect in the rape and murder of a teenage girl whose body was found submerged in a pond the day before, police said.
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Police Attempt to Arrest Koh Kong Protesters During March
Military police attempted to arrest a group of protesters as they marched through Koh Kong province’s Khemara Phoumint City Thursday to demand the release of three jailed activists from environmental NGO Mother Nature, a rights worker and an official said.
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Woman to Receive $10,000 Compensation After Standoff
A woman who locked herself in her home with her children on Wednesday as excavators prepared to flatten her village for development will receive $10,000 in compensation, officials in Kandal province said Thursday, less than half of the amount she demanded after agreeing to end the standoff.
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Defence airs disgust with court
A tense atmosphere permeated the Khmer Rouge tribunal yesterday, as proceedings adjourned ahead of schedule for the second day in a row amid disagreements surrounding the court’s legal procedures. Both Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan were present for the beginning of yesterday’s hearing after walkouts by both their defence teams the previous day over the prosecution’s use of “written records of interviews” (WRIs) in document presentations.
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Mondolkiri Man Charged for Raping 12-Year-Old
The Mondolkiri Provincial Court on Thursday charged a 32-year-old plantation worker for raping a 12-year-old girl in Keo Seima district on Monday, police said. Deputy provincial police chief So Sovann said the court charged Lem San with aggravated rape, which is punishable by between seven and 15 years in prison. “The court charged him with.....
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Mother Nature backers clash with authorities
Demonstrators in the southeastern province of Koh Kong clashed briefly with security forces yesterday, as they marched on the local town hall and court to demand the release of three detained activists. A villager who was at the protest said that when the group reached Khemarak Phumin town’s Domg Tong Market, they were met by about 20 mixed security forces who blocked their path. “They grabbed us and tried to arrest one of us, but we dragged that protester away. My child was beaten . . . [but] we arrived at the court and will continue to protest,” villager Phav Nhemg said.
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NEC to Test Digitized Voter Registration Nationwide
The National Election Committee (NEC) will in November start a pilot project testing its new computerized voter registration system in 43 villages across the country, NEC spokesman Hang Puthea said Thursday. Mr. Puthea said the pilot would be carried out in villages in 25 communes selected as a representative sample of the country ...
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Voter registration test delayed
A voter registration system test originally slated for October will instead occur in November, the National Election Committee (NEC) announced in a press release on Wednesday. According to the statement, the test will be carried out in 25 cities across the country, from November 1 to 15, in anticipation of the new system’s expected launch next year. NEC spokesman Hang Puthea said “we had to postpone to November 1 because of material preparations, and we still have to finish training the staff”. Hang also mentioned a delay in funding from Japanese and EU partners but assured “they understand the process”.
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Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan Blast Khmer Rouge Tribunal
Khmer Rouge tribunal defendants Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan, in rare addresses to the court Thursday, both offered support to their defense teams while criticizing the Trial Chamber, a day after their lawyers walked out of a hearing in protest.
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With Maps, Border Tension Defused—for Now
At the height of the CNRP’s campaign to draw attention to illegal Vietnamese incursions into Cambodia, the opposition party in June shifted its offensive toward an old claim—that the government has been complicit in planting border markers well inside Cambodian territory.
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Rights review process ‘has little NGO input’
Non-governmental organisations have little input in Cambodia’s sporadic follow-up reports to the human rights treaties it ratified with the United Nations, allowing the government to claim it complies with UN human rights legislation, a study released yesterday indicates. “It’s safe to assume there are above 2,000 NGOs in Cambodia, [but] only a handful of NGOs have ever engaged with the UN review process,” said Billy Tai, a co-author of the study published by the Cambodian Human Rights Action Committee, at a conference in Phnom Penh yesterday.
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Police Apprehend Alleged Child Rapist at Mondolkiri Plantation
Police in Mondolkiri province arrested a 32-year-old plantation worker on Tuesday evening, a day after he allegedly raped a 12-year-old girl in the forest, officials said Wednesday
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Defense Teams ‘Boycott’ Khmer Rouge Tribunal
Proceedings at the Khmer Rouge tribunal were halted Wednesday morning after defense teams for Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan walked out of the courtroom, with one lawyer calling the documentary hearing that was underway a “farce.”
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Compensation Offered in Kandal Gang Rape Case
The families of three men who are on the run after allegedly gang-raping a 16-year-old girl last week have offered to pay the girl’s family $6,000 if they agree to retract the complaint against them, her aunt said Wednesday, but police said the case must still be sent to court.
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Factory sequestering unionists from others
Eight union representatives at a Chinese-owned window factory in Svay Rieng’s Bavet town say they are being illegally detained by security guards in a separate room at work each day after leading recent protests. Choeun Sinoeun, a representative for the Collective Union of Movement of Workers (CUMW) said that he and seven others, including a pregnant woman, have been locked in the room within the factory every day this week, supposedly to clean it.
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Defence teams walk out on proceedings
Both Khieu Samphan's and Nuon Chea’s defence counsels walked out of proceedings at the Khmer Rouge tribunal yesterday midway through the prosecution’s document presentations following an overruled objection from Victor Koppe, Nuon Chea’s defender. Koppe’s objection concerned the use of “written records of interviews” (WRIs), particularly in regard to whether the subject of those interviews, typically a witness, is dead or alive. Koppe challenged the reliability of WRIs, arguing that their use as documentary evidence is inappropriate.
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Police in Mondolkiri Province Hunt for Suspect in Girl’s Rape
Police in Mondolkiri province said Tuesday that they were searching for an unidentified man who allegedly raped a 12-year-old girl on Monday after he asked her to tend cattle with him.
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Court Drops Rape Case Against British Man
The Kampot Provincial Court has decided to drop the case against a British man who was arrested at a guesthouse in Toek Chhou district on Sunday for allegedly raping a British woman the night before, a court official said Tuesday.
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Activist gets day in court
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday tried an opposition activist for allegedly driving his tuk-tuk into a barricade and beating security guards during a protest that turned violent outside the prime minister’s house in the capital. Ouk Pich Samnang – one of 11 opposition activists last month convicted of insurrection over a violent protest at Freedom Park last July – yesterday faced four more charges, later reduced to two, related to the separate rally on October 20.
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Hydro Dam Does Little for Locals, Study Finds
Most families immediately downstream of Cambodia’s first major hydropower dam are worse off than they were before the project, according to a new study by U.K. researchers that urges the government to pay more attention to impacts on local residents as it gears up for a major hydropower push.
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