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AFTER ARRESTS, ACTION NEEDED TO PROTECT ONLINE EXPRESSION, PRESS FREEDOM
Recent crackdowns on online free expression by the Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC), including Friday’s arrest of student Kong Raiya, create a disturbing outlook for the future of Internet freedom in Cambodia. The Cambodian Center for Independent Media (CCIM) urges the RGC to take immediate and decisive actions to end Internet censorship and protect human rights online. “The recent arrest of Mr. Raiya reaffirms a pattern of increasing government restrictions of online freedom of expression,” said CCIM Executive Director Pa Nguon Teang. “The Internet, once Cambodia’s last open and free medium for press freedom and free expression, is now becoming increasingly restrictive and subject to the government controls that have for so long limited the country’s mainstream media.”
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Jealous wife gets life for acid attack
A Cambodian court on Monday sentenced a garment factory worker to life in prison for killing another woman in an acid attack motivated by jealous rage over an alleged love affair. Sroeun Nann was arrested in March after splashing the acid on Meas Vanny, a female security guard. Meas Vanny, 20, suffered severe burns to her face and body in the attack and died two weeks later at a hospital. During her trial, Sroeun Nann, 40, confessed to the attack because she was "angry that the woman had a love affair with her husband." Nou Veasna, presiding judge at Phnom Penh Municipal Court, jailed Sroeun Nann for life for "intentional killing (Meas Vanny) with acid".
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New apps tackle gender-based violence in Cambodia
Three new apps launched in Cambodia on Monday aim to combat violence against women by providing information of support services and networks to help at-risk women, as well as tools to let their families know when they feel unsafe. The apps have been designed by women’s rights blogger Sum Dany, gender rights advocate Phat Sreytouch and Bunn Rachana, who focuses on the safety of women in urban areas.
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Ieng Thirith, Khmer Rouge ‘First Lady,’ Dies at 83
Ieng Thirith, who was among Pol Pot’s inner circle during the rule of the Khmer Rouge as the regime’s social affairs minister, died on Saturday in Pailin province, where her family remains influential. She was 83.
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British Man Arrested Over Alleged Rape of Tourist
A 25-year-old British handyman was arrested in Kampot province on Sunday on suspicion of raping another U.K. national the night before, though police now believe the sex was consensual, an official said Sunday.
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Student arrested after posting about 'revolution'
An anti-government activist has been imprisoned over a social media post in which he called for people in Cambodia to join him in a “colour revolution”, though critics of the arrest say he enjoys no political influence. Kong Raiya, 25, was captured on Thursday outside Phnom Penh’s Khemarak University, where he was about to sit his foundation year final exam, and taken to Phnom Penh Municipal Court for questioning over a statement he had published on August 7.
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Woman Arrested Over Alleged Ties to Human Trafficking Ring
A woman was arrested and sent to Kompong Cham Provincial Prison on human trafficking charges over the weekend after police linked her to an international trafficking ring that was busted by Vietnamese police earlier this month, a police official said.
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Cambodia: Hun Sen back on the offensive with arrest of opposition senator
On 15 August, Hong Sok Hour, a long-serving Cambodian opposition senator, was arrested by police and charged with treason. Such are the wages of those opposing the country's long-serving prime minister, Hun Sen. In typical fashion, the Prime Minister foreshadowed the arrest during a speech at a graduation ceremony two days prior.
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Briton arrested in Cambodia for 'violent rape' of British woman at backpackers hotel
A young British man has been arrested for the rape and assault of a female tourist – also British – at a guesthouse in Cambodia. Local media reported the 22-year-old victim was left with injuries and bruises all over her body, including a fractured wrist, after the attack. The Foreign Office has confirmed the arrest and incident and is providing consular assistance to both people.
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Top Female Official in Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge Regime Dies
Ieng Thirith, one of the most powerful women in Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge government who was accused of helping plan and carry out the regime’s genocidal policies in the 1970s, died Saturday. She was 83. She and her late husband, Ieng Sary, were among four senior Khmer Rouge leaders indicted in 2010 by a United Nations-backed tribunal for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. She was freed in 2012 without a verdict after being deemed mentally unfit to stand trial due to severe dementia.
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Prime Minister Threatens Legal Action Against Map Critics
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Friday ordered authorities to take legal action against any individual or organization that accuses the government of using the wrong maps to demarcate the country’s border, according to a statement from the Council of Ministers.
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Groups Urge UN to Address Situation in Cambodia
A group of 12 international and local human rights organizations sent a letter to the U.N. Human Rights Council on Thursday urging it to support a resolution addressing “the deteriorating human rights situation in Cambodia.”
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Arrests, murder at dam
Memories of malaria, forced marriages and witnessing a pregnant woman crushed to death under the weight of a boulder yesterday formed the backbone of the testimony of Khmer Rouge tribunal witness Yi Laisov, a member of a mobile unit at the notorious Trapaeng Thma Dam worksite. Part of a female youth cooperative forced to dig 30 cubic metres of dirt per day on meagre rations of rice and fish heads, Laisov, who hails from Battambang, recalled her unit’s seemingly endless work hours at the dam site.
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Witness Tells Khmer Rouge Tribunal of Forced Marriage
A witness at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia on Thursday told of how she and her family risked death if she did not agree to a marriage arranged by a Khmer Rouge chief in her sector.
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Human rights groups urge UN to address Cambodia "violations"
In an open letter to the UN Human Rights Council, a number of groups including Human Rights Watch, and the Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR), are calling for the support of a resolution at the next session that highlights patterns of serious violations and urge Cambodia Government to put an end to such violations and to abide by its domestic and international legal obligations.
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Ex-Top Judge’s Bodyguard Denies Accusations
Pech Prum Mony, a one-star military general and former bodyguard for disgraced Phnom Penh Municipal Court director Ang Mealaktei, on Thursday denied accusations of abuse of power and interfering with judicial procedure while under questioning at the court, his lawyer said.
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Rights Champion Urges Women to Seek Justice in Courts
PHNOM PENH (Khmer Times) – An increasing number of women who are victims of violence are looking for solutions outside the country’s dysfunctional court system, the president of rights group Licadho, Pung Chhiv Kek, said yesterday. Many victims find it hard to access the legal system and as a result are forced to seek compensation for violence outside the courtroom, Ms. Chhiv Kek said. She made the comments following a workshop conducted by an umbrella group of NGOs. “We want women to find a legal system they can regard as a legitimate authority. At present, we are finding that most women like to find solution outside the legal system,” she said. “Sometimes, they are able to work with a local authority to receive financial compensation and finish a case before it goes to court.”
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Police ‘check’ NGO’s Koh Kong premises
Police in Koh Kong province yesterday raided a house rented by local environmental NGO Mother Nature in what its members have described as an ongoing campaign of intimidation against the group amid the detention of three of its activists. Mother Nature activist Thun Sothean said about 20 police officers arrived at the Smach Meanchey commune property, which has been rented by the NGO since February, at 4:30pm yesterday but presented no arrest warrant.
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Group calls for firmer stance on abuse cases
A women’s rights group called on the government to take stronger action against domestic violence yesterday, saying that numerous cases were being swept under the carpet through mediation and pay-offs. Pung Chhiv Kek, director of women’s rights group NGO CEDAW and president of rights group Licadho, said Cambodia had adequate legislation to protect women and children from violence, but that most cases were solved outside the law at the local level due to traditional mindsets and a fear of reporting cases to the authorities. “We have to use the legal system to help women,” she said at a forum yesterday in Phnom Penh.
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Fines up after new rule: gov’t
The announcement last month that traffic cops will collect 70 per cent of fines they give out has already seen enforcement increase, according to a senior official at the Interior Ministry. Speaking yesterday, General Run Roth Veasna, director of the ministry’s Department of Order, said tickets from patrolmen have begun rolling in at higher volumes, while the government’s campaign to raise awareness about the new Traffic Law is now fully under way. “The order department has received a lot of fine receipts, which means the police are now working hard and faithfully,” he said.
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