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Parent of Jailed Autistic Teen Fear Discrimination
A parent of Kak Sovann Chhay, a 16-year-old autistic teenager who served a jail term for incitement and insulting government officials, fears that her son will face discrimination after being identified as a former inmate.
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Cambodia’s Hun Sen blames deforestation on the country’s poor
Government officials are complicit with the offenders that are destroying so many of our forests,” he said. “If these losses were caused just by people cutting down wood to build their houses, we wouldn’t have lost so many of our trees.”
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Kampot Residents, Journalists Released
Two journalists arrested for covering a Kampot land protest were released on Thursday after being detained earlier this week, while three others who were part of the land dispute were released from detention.
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Cambodia Skirts Net-Zero Pledge at COP26, Rehashes Old Target
Though Cambodia had disappointed environmental activists last week by withholding approval of a pledge to protect its forests, the environment minister rolled through a brief list of climate-related achievements during his roughly five minutes at the podium. He also touched again on Cambodia’s pledge to reduce emissions by 42 percent by 2030, a goal the country has tied to dubious carbon offsets through REDD+ projects.
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Cambodia Makes No New Pledges at COP26, Requests More Funding Instead
Cambodia on Nov. 10 called for more accessible international climate finance for adaptation but made no new climate pledges at the 26th United Nations Climate Conference (COP26) at Glasgow.
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Ratanakiri Environmentalist Sentenced to Five Years in Prison
Environmental activist Chhorn Phalla was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment by the Ratanakiri Provincial Court on Wednesday for illegally clearing forests.
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Cambodian teenager jailed for posts vows to fight on
An autistic teenager jailed for writing messages deemed insulting to the Cambodian government vowed to continue "to fight for patriots" after he was released from prison today.
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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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