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Prey Lang Activist Handed Two-Year Suspended Sentence
An anti-logging activist was on Tuesday convicted of assault against an alleged timber trader, as rights groups linked the verdict to ongoing harassment and intimidation against environmentalists in the country.
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Police searching for man who publicly insulted Prime Minister
The Ministry of Interior’s spokesman General Khieu Sopheak told Khmer Times yesterday that the police are working to track down a man known as Voeun Veasna, who wrote a comment full of violent threats on Prime Minister Hun Sen’s Facebook page.
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Victims Press for Compensation, Imprisonment Over Million-Dollar Rural Scam
Almost $1 million in compensation remains to be paid out and a perpetrator has yet to see jail time over a Kampong Cham scam that ensnared 180 families, the Supreme Court heard on Monday.
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NSSF demands people show proof of vaccination before receiving social security card
The National Social Security Fund (NSSF) announced on Sunday that it will not provide social security cards to anyone who does not show proof of COVID-19 vaccination after the Phnom Penh administration put in place measures requiring people to show their vaccination cards upon entering and exiting public and private institutions in the capital.
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CHRC says NGOs call to release prisoners will affect public order
The Cambodian Human Rights Committee (CHRC) considers that the calls of some NGOs to release prisoners is without legal basis, and will affect security and public order. This comes after several NGOs, including the Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights (Licadho), called for the relevant ministries and institutions to address the issue of overcrowding in prisons by speeding up the process of releasing detainees, to avoid a Covid-19 epidemic in prisons.
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Newspaper’s Error Snowballs Into Constitutional Amendment on Dual-Citizen Leaders
Cambodia’s one-party government is pushing ahead with a constitutional amendments to ban individuals with dual citizenship from holding top positions in government, purportedly to avoid foreign interference and as a sign of devotion to the nation. At least four opposition officials have been charged with plotting over the saga.
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Cambodian PM orders search for 'violent' Facebook poster
Cambodian leader Hun Sen has ordered authorities to find the owner of a Facebook account, believed to be in Thailand, who posted a poem with “violent” words on the prime minister’s page and news feed regarding his grandson.
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Cambodian UN mission: Kingdom gets 'recognition' for human rights, Covid jab drive
The Cambodian Permanent Mission to the UN Office in Geneva said a total of 22 foreign delegations spoke in favour of the Kingdom’s efforts, progress and achievements in promoting and protecting human rights, while nine others voiced critical comments on civic and political space in the country.
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UN Rights Chief: Repression in Cambodia Is Stifling Fundamental Freedoms
U.N. monitors probing Cambodia’s human rights situation say increasing government repression against political opponents and civic activists is stifling people's fundamental freedoms.
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Berlin Becomes a Magnet for LGBT+ Poles Fleeing Homophobia at Home
When conservative politicians started making anti-LGBT+ speeches on the campaign trail, Piotr Kalwaryjski, a gay man from western Poland, decided it was time to pack up and leave.
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Council of Ministers endorses draft constitutional amendment barring those holding dual citizenships from top leadership posts
The draft amendment came at the request of Prime Minister Hun Sen, who on Wednesday called for the constitution to require leaders to hold only Cambodian citizenship after the Guardian ran an article incorrectly saying Hun Sen was one of thousands of non-Europeans who received a Cypriot passport. The newspaper later ran a correction noting that it was only members of his inner circle who were discovered to hold the passport, according to information from the “Pandora Papers” data leak.
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Praying for Land Sales at Holy Kampot Caves
In August, the caves at Kampong Trach have just reopened to visitors, and a bus unloads dozens of tourists in mid-morning. A flock of children gather around, offering guides of the caves that tunnel through the rock faces.
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The capacity for internet control has increased dramatically” - Interview with the Asia Centre
Cambodia’s descent into de facto one-party rule since 2017 has been marked by a shrinking civic space. According to a recent report by the Asia Centre, this has included a sharp reduction in online freedom of expression and increased surveillance of the country’s rapidly growing number of internet users.
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Special Rapporteur: Civic Space “Shrinking, Shrunken, Shrunk” in Cambodia
Speaking at the UN Human Rights Council’s 48th session on Oct. 6, Vitit Muntabhorn—special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia—said that recent years have seen “disturbing, deteriorating backsliding” in relation to the democratic space and respect for human rights in Cambodia.
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Cambodian Court Condemned for Jailing Journalist
The sentencing last week of a Cambodian publisher has been condemned by local media associations, who say jailing journalists sends a troubling message.
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Urban poor communities urge faster solutions to avoid displacement
Members of several poor communities affected by urban development in Phnom Penh have asked the government to provide them with solutions to stay in the city as they face the threat of forced evictions.
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Calls for safer means of transport for factory workers
A prominent road safety expert called for the provision of proper and safer means of transport for factory workers as it could prevent and reduce traffic accidents across the country in the long term.
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US Congress passes sanctions bill on human rights
A spokesman for the Cambodian government expressed regret over the US Congress’s decision to pass a bill empowering the president to sanction individual officials deemed to be responsible for undermining democracy and committing human rights violations, saying that the bill will negatively impact the relationship between the two nations. The bill will now have to pass through the senate before being approved by the president.
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Garment workers call on government to tackle high water prices
Garment workers have called on the government to intervene to ensure that rental house owners are not charging lodgers more than the fixed water price of 800 riel per cubic meter set four years ago, saying that they were struggling to keep up with the high cost of utilities.
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Fake news committee tackles questionable contents
The Ministry of Information's fake news tracking committee said on October 1 that it had followed the contents of nearly 500 news and video broadcasts which have information deemed to be inciting, insulting to the country’s leaders and misleading to the public.
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