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Read More UNESCO to Investigate Alleged Rights Abuses at Angkor Wat
Land grabbing has been a hot-button issue in Cambodia ever since the first United Nations peacekeepers arrived in the early 1990s and initiated their first de-mining programs, in a country where quality real estate was in short supply and arguments over ownership were many and heated.
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Read More Five Run Ta Ek, Rolous Residents Questioned By Court Over Legal Suit By Apsara Authority
According to the summons issued by deputy prosecutor Ngel Sovanrith, the residents were questioned for “obstructing public officers, illegal detention, issuing threats, insults, conditions as well as attempting murder” in Ta Ek village, Run Ta Ek commune, Banteay Srey district, Siem Reap province on April 24.
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Read More Court Grants Government’s Request to Confiscate Teav Vannol’s Properties After Defamation Lawsuit
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court granted an injunction order to stop Candlelight Party president Teav Vannol from transferring his properties to a third party after he lost the defamation suit brought by the government. A decision came one week after the court found Vannol guilty of defamation and ordered him to pay $1.5 million in compensation to the government.
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Read More “Strategic, Systematic Operations” Set Up To Attack Independent Media
The Facebook pages of three independent foreign-based media outlets have been criticized on social media by groups dressed in military uniforms and accounts with one or two photos. These groups allegedly used insulting language, accusing the outlets of foreign service and spreading fake news.
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Read More Man arrested after authorities infiltrate ‘secret’ rebel Telegram group
Pursuant to the order of the Investigating Judge, on July 28, 2024, the police arrested Touch Rattanak, male, born on October 5, 1984, who participated in inciting to demonstrate to overthrow the Royal Government in a telegram group called ‘Demonstration for the Nation’.
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Read More Investors, NGO target Nike over unpaid Thai, Cambodian supply chain workers
NIKE has been accused by a group of 70 investors and more than 50 human rights groups for failing to compensate over 4,000 workers in its supply chain in Cambodia and Thailand.
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Read More UNESCO to send inspection team to Cambodia’s Angkor temple complex
A UNESCO committee has recommended that an inspection team visit the disputed Angkor area in Cambodia’s Siem Reap province, where the forcible removal of thousands of families has drawn allegations of human rights abuses.
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Read More Civic Space, Human Rights, Election Process Among Nine Key Concerns of UN Special Rapporteur
Vitit Muntarbhorn, United Nations special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia, said the civic and political space, and rights of indigenous people were still restricted, although the new government was now led by the new generation. He also said the elections were “far from being free and fair”.
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Read More Boeung Tamok Residents Questioned by Court As Majority Accept Exchange Policy
To date, 21 houses remain there, while 88 houses have accepted the land exchange policy and moved to new places, according to a Prek Pnov district official. Meanwhile, community residents said only three houses have not submitted the negotiation proposal.
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Read More Four Paris Peace Agreement Activists Charged With Incitement After CLV_DTA Broadcast
Its spokesperson Touch Sokhak said the four activists have been sent by the national police to pretrial detention following a court warrant by an investigating judge. The warrant stated that the four defendants and accomplices broadcast a live video on Srun Srorn’s Facebook about the Cambodia-Laos-Vietnam Development Triangle Areas (CLV-DTA), making comments that “distorted” and “fabricated” information with ill intention to incite anger against the government leadership. “This act has caused serious damage to national security,” read the warrant on Wednesday.
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Read More Candlelight Party President Guilty of Defamation, Ordered To Pay $1.5M Compensation To Government
"The court has considered that it has adequate evidence [to convict] the defendant, Teav Vannol, of having committed public defamation in Phnom Penh," said presiding judge Hok Pov, adding that the defendant can appeal if he was not satisfied with the decision.
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Read More In Cambodia, Indigenous villagers lose forest & land amid carbon offset project
A member of an Indigenous ethnic Bunong community, the elderly Bpel lives in the village of Pu Kong deep inside the 292,690-hectare (723,250-acre) Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary, much of it part of a leading carbon offset initiative, in northeastern Cambodia’s Mondulkiri province.
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Read More Four Paris Peace Agreement Activists Arrested Over CLV Development Triangle Area Discussion
Paris Peace Agreement (PPA) activist Srun Sron and three other, were arrested by the Seim Reap Provincial Police on July 23 after posting a live video discussing the cooperation between the Cambodia-Laos-Vietnam (CLV) development triangle area (DTA). Former Prime Minister Hun Sen later went on a special live session to clarify the "accusation" by the activists.
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Read More Cambodia detains advocate for informal workers
Chea Chantah, an advocate for the Independent Democracy of Informal Economy Association (IDEA), has been detained by police and is facing a three year jail term if convicted of conducting "activities causing misapprehension with the discharge of public functions".
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Read More Cambodia authorities falsely claim environmental activists justly convicted
Human rights defenders and international agencies have broadly condemned a Cambodian court' s decision to sentence 10 environmental activists to six and eight year in prison for " plotting" against the state and/or lèse-majesté (defaming the king ) earlier this month.
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Read More UN Special Rapporteur Gathers Information on Land Encroachment, Deforestation in Ratanakiri
Vitit, who is visiting the country from July 21 to 27 ,2024, will also meet government representatives, human rights defenders, civil society organizations, journalists, media, members of the diplomatic community, UN agencies and other key stakeholders in Phnom Penh and Kandal.
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Read More Social Land Concession To Be Reassessed After Sre Ambel Villagers Protest
Koh Kong Provincial Administration has permitted community representatives in Sre Ambel district to reassess recipients of land concessions by themselves beginning July 15. The provincial land management committee would later review the result from from the new assessment.
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Read More Another Court Order Issued To Boeung Tamok Residents Over Canal Excavation Incident
Nine Boeung Tamok residents received another court order on Tuesday from the Phnom Penh Municipal Court for intentional violence and "crimes against public officials" in connection with an incident involving canal excavation that occurred in February. A few the residents have received several court orders for different issues.
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Read More Samaki Rong Roeurng Community Facing Eviction Seek Higher Compensation From Canal Project
About 40 families of the Samaki Rong Reurng community living next to Boeung Trabek canal in Pram village, Phsar Doeum Thkov commune, Khan Chamkar Mon asked the authorities to consider onsite development or provide appropriate compensation in light of the Boeung Trabek Sewage canal project.
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Read More Cambodian monk expelled for attending march honoring activist
A Buddhist monastery in Cambodia has expelled a monk after he joined a peaceful march marking the assassination anniversary of political commentator and rights defender Kem Ley.
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