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Appeal Court Puts CNRP Activist in Line for Imminent Release
A jailed opposition activist had his sentence reduced to 10 months and 20 days by the Appeal Court on Wednesday, putting him in line to be released within the next week alongside a small wave of activists now being freed by the courts.
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Arrested Journalists Released to Apologize, Returned to Questioning
Two journalists who were detained in Kampot alongside a 4-year-old child were allowed out on Wednesday to film an apology. But they were then sent to the provincial court for further questioning.
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Bunong crops destroyed by bulldozers
Mondulkiri province’s concession company is in the middle of a land dispute with more than 100 Bunong indigenous families living in O’Raing district’s Dak Dam and Sen Monorom communes, who allege it has cleared over 100 hectares of their land with bulldozers.
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Two activists lose appeal against incitement conviction
Phnom Penh Appeal Court yesterday upheld the two-year jail term of a former CNRP activist convicted for inciting people to go against the government in 2019.
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Island of Rich:
For now, the image is limited to the promotional materials of the Vue Aston development, a project now making its way on the banks of the Bassac River. The glassy face of the mixed-use condominium, shown carefully scaled-down as a plastic model on its showroom floor, faces across the river at Koh Pich. More notably, however, it digs into the bank right next to the massive Koh Norea island-making project.
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Opposition Activist’s Teenage Son Released From Prison
The 16-year-old son of a jailed opposition activist was released from Phnom Penh’s Prey Sar Prison this morning after four and a half months in jail for incitement and insult.
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Appeal Court cuts ex-CNRP man’s jail term
Phnom Penh Court of Appeal today reduced the jail term of a former high school teacher and former CNRP councillor for Daun Penh district from 18 months to only 10 months and 20 days with the rest of the sentence suspended.
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Hundreds of Residents Protest Land Disputes in Pur Senchey, Russei Keo
Hundreds of Phnom Penh families protested in the capital on Monday, highlighting two ongoing and long-standing disputes in the city.
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Entertainment Workers Feel Neglected as Unemployment Remains Rampant
Gripped by uncertainty and frustration, entertainment workers across Cambodia have called on the government to provide better support as they struggle to make ends meet in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Journalists, Protesters Arrested Amid Claims of 4-Year-Old’s Detention
Two journalists in Kampot were arrested as residents protested for the release of their family members amid allegations that police had detained a 4-year-old child.
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Cambodian activist released after 14 months in harsh prison conditions
Underfed inmates at Cambodia’s Prey Sar prison suffer sleepless nights in unhygienic, overcrowded cells, unless they can pay corrupt prison guards to for enough room to lie down, an activist released this week after serving a 14-month stint at the prison told RFA.
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Activists released with sentences of ‘time served’
Sophal stated that the Phnom Penh Municipal Court held a series of hearings recently and announced verdicts on October 26 in criminal cases involving a number of defendants identified by civil society organisations and in some media reports as environmental or political activists.
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Two More Preah Sihanouk State-Land Plots Go to ‘Low-Key’ Businesswoman
To one side is state land Prime Minister Hun Sen recently transferred to his daughters. To the other is land given to a three-star general in Hun Sen’s bodyguard unit recently promoted to be his assistant, as well as to a notorious tycoon, the late Suy Sophan.
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Release of Autistic 16-year-old from Prison Delayed by Two Days
Officials at Correctional Center 2 have said that the release of Kak Sovann Chhay, the 16-year-old with autism whose arrest prompted outrage among human rights advocates, has been delayed until Nov. 10 after he was due to be released earlier today.
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Hun Sen urges resolution for land disputes in Monday address, warns analysts for Paris Peace Agreement commentary
As Prime Minister Hun Sen urged out-of-court settlements for land disputes during a Monday address on the grounds of the Ministry of Land Management, a crowd of about 100 families waited outside hoping to beseech the country’s top leader for help in disputes of their own.
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Another Activist Released: ‘If We Don’t Dare to Talk, Others Will Not’
A Khmer Thavrak activist, released from Prey Sar Prison after 14 months in jail, says she is concerned whether she will encounter difficulties finding work again as a cook.
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LGBTIQ Advocates Urge Same-Sex Marriage Reform
Civil society organizations have urged the Cambodian government to legalize same-sex marriage by amending the Constitution.
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Online Course on “Capacity Building on Human Rights Promotion and Protection Mechanism in Cambodia” by KOICA
Twenty-two (22) officials from the Cambodian Human Rights Committee (CHRC) will attend the week-long online course whose objective is to contribute to the achievement of the capacity to learn about the international human rights system and establish human rights policy, said KOICA in a press release AKP received this afternoon.
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Report on PPAs ‘the way forward for Cambodia’
The Cambodian Institute for Cooperation and Peace (CICP), and the Stimson Center yesterday virtually launched the report on “The Paris Peace Agreements: Looking Back and Moving Forward”, supported by the US Embassy here.
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Spokesperson rejects UN Special Rapporteur’s Cambodia press freedom report
Meas Sophorn, Under Secretary of State and Spokesperson at the Ministry of Information, has turned down a report by the UN Special Rapporteur on the press freedom in Cambodia.
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