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Opposition Official’s Teenage Son to Be Tried for Incitement This Month
An incitement case against an opposition official’s 17-year-old son, which U.N. experts have criticized as “disturbing,” will head to trial on September 29, the boy’s lawyer said.
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Nine face charges in Kandal land dispute
Khim Somaly, a representative of more than 300 families locked in the land dispute, said that before the clash about 200 people were there trying to stop the construction company’s machinery from clearing the land that was still under dispute, but about 400 police officers had put up barricades to prevent them from entering, leading to the altercation.
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30 arrested amid clash at new airport construction site
Kandal provincial police have arrested 30 people after a clash with protesters on September 12 over a land dispute at the new Phnom Penh International Airport construction site in Kandal Stung district’s Boeung Khyang commune.
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Farmer says she was forced to put thumbprint
A 49-year farmer, Saing Yorng told the Phnom Penh Court of Appeal yesterday that she was threatened and forced to put her thumbprint on a piece of paper by military police officers when they arrested her in September 2018.
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Families locked in Kandal land row seek compromise.
Most of the 329 families from seven villages with crops planted on state land in the Chamkar Barang area of Tuol Prich commune in Kandal province’s Ang Snuol district have refused to accept the inter-ministerial settlement policy that seeks to relocate them to make way for possible development projects sponsored by the ministries of National Defence and Environment that are considered high priority by the government.
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Cambodia arrests villagers amid airport land dispute
Police beat and dispersed protesters during a demonstration on Sept. 12 and arrested villagers accusing them of alleged violence against the authorities.
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CSOs continue digital campaign calling for release of human right defenders
Chak Sopheap, executive director of the Cambodian Center for Human Rights, said this campaign is yet another call on the Royal Government to drop all charges against imprisoned human rights defenders and activists and to release them immediately and unconditionally. She described this as a first crucial step towards redressing the human rights situation in the Kingdom
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Prey Lang Extended landscape has significant forest cover
The Assessment of Impacts of Development and Climate Change on Natural Resources in the Prey Lang Extended Landscape in its report published on September 10 revealed that Prey Lang Extended landscape (PLEL) still contained significant forest cover at 60.26% of the total land area as of 2018.
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Thirty Arrested as Airport Land Protest Turns Violent
Kandal authorities arrested 30 people on Sunday in a violent confrontation in which 13 police officers were injured over a land dispute at new airport construction site. However, the families of those arrested claim unfairness and say protesters were also injured.
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Dozens detained after Kandal airport protest turns violent
Family members of villagers arrested by police while protesting the clearance of their farmland to make way for a new airport in Kandal province are alleging that their relatives are being held hostage to pressure them into accepting the compensation offered for their land. Thirty people were arrested on Sunday ahead of what witnesses describe as widespread police raids, beatings and arrests.
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Province Confirms Arrests of 30 Airport Protesters, Villagers Speak of Fear and Anger
“Extremism” among 100 protesters led to the use of tear gas and the arrests of 30 individuals, including 20 women, the Kandal provincial administration said in a statement following a Sunday confrontation at Phnom Penh’s new disputed international airport site.
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Cambodian Villagers Arrested Over Airport Land Dispute
Cambodian authorities have arrested more than 30 villagers during a violent roundup of land protesters in Kandal province where they were protesting against an airport being built by a company owned by a tycoon with ties to the country’s autocratic leader, provincial police and villagers said.
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Citizen Journalist Detained Filming Police Station Amid Airport Dispute
A citizen journalist was detained on Monday and later released after filming a police station and preparing to interview family members of 30 Kandal villagers arrested in a land dispute over Phnom Penh’s new international airport.
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Violence, Around 30 Arrests at New Phnom Penh Airport Development
Around 30 people were arrested in one morning amid violence, villagers and local officials said, as unrest around Phnom Penh’s new international airport development project in Kandal province continued to escalate.
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Arbitration Council Avoids Ruling on NagaWorld Mass Layoffs
A NagaWorld union representative said the Arbitration Council refused to adjudicate on the validity of the mega casino’s decision to layoff more than 1,300 workers, with a labor advocate saying the council wants a labor inspection procedure to decide the matter.
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Arbitration Council will not consider demands of laid-off NagaWorld’s workers
The Arbitration Council on Friday rejected consideration of the demands of 373 laid-off NagaWorld workers who had sought to counter the casino company’s mass layoff strategy.
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Police officer suspended for beating woman over not wearing helmet in PP
A police officer has been detained for allegedly beating a woman till she bled at a police barricade on Wednesday night.
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Lor Peang villagers appeal against in absentia land dispute verdict
A group of villagers from Lor Peang village in Kampong Chhnang province brought a complaint appeal against the Phnom Penh Municipal Court’s decision on July 8 to sentence four villagers in absentia to one year in prison for incitement to commit a felony, intentional damage and use of violence on property occupied by a person in 2012.
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Officer lands in court for ‘hitting’ motorist with walkie-talkie
The police officer who was detained on the order of National Police chief Neth Savoeun for hitting a woman while enforcing traffic law in Veal Vong commune of Phnom Penh’s Prampi Makara district has been sent to the municipal court.
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Koh Kong Residents Want Land Titles After Officials Raze Their Neighbors’ Crops
More than 20 families in Koh Kong province, where authorities have been razing villagers’ farmland, are asking officials to formalize their ownership as they fear the land clearings will continue.
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