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NGO Sings Backup for Street Musicians
Phnom Penh City Hall’s push to eradicate blind musicians from busking on the capital’s streets is pointless if the musicians are not offered alternative employment, the Cambodian Disabled People’s Organization (CDPO) said yesterday. Speaking at a celebration for the seventh anniversary of the Law on the Protection and the Promotion of the Rights of Persons with Disability, CDPO executive director Ngin Saorath said banning disabled musicians was futile, even though City Hall announced in February it would take measures to do so.
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Scuffles in latest round of ‘Black Monday’ protests
Nine weeks into the civil society-backed “Black Monday” demonstrations, four participants from the Boeung Kak community received minor injuries yesterday as they scuffled with Daun Penh district security guards who were preventing them from protesting the arrest of current and former human rights activists. A group of 50 Boeung Kak activists had gathered in their community at 9am to display banners and a black bamboo cage containing a person dressed in white – a symbolic stand-in for the jailed foursome – but was prevented from continuing the protest by about 20 security guards.
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RCAF officials told to protect the gov’t
Security officials were again exhorted yesterday to protect the “legitimate government” and block any “colour revolution” that threatens it in a meeting of senior Royal Cambodian Armed Forces staff to discuss work conducted over the first six months of the year. According to a copy of Defence Minister Tea Banh’s speech, members of RCAF were admonished to fight against the destruction of natural resources including illegal logging and mining – and also to stymie attempts to topple the government, rhetoric that has become increasingly common as controversy has grown surrounding legal cases against opposition leaders, rights workers and others.
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Police Ignorance, Culture Hinder Progress on Domestic Abuse
A poor grasp of domestic violence laws by police and a cultural bias that often overlooks such abuse are making it difficult for authorities to reduce the sexual and physical brutality that affects 1 in 5 Cambodian women, experts said at a meeting on Monday on preventing family violence. Ignorance of the law is particularly acute among district and commune police, who are most likely to respond to reports of abuse, Sar Sineth, deputy director of the Ministry of Women’s Affairs’ legal protection department, told a meeting of the government’s Technical Working Group on Gender-Based Violence.
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Bribe to cut red tape lands Foreign Ministry official in court
A former Ministry of Foreign Affairs official appeared at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday charged with misappropriation of public funds. The accused, Ear Sae, 42, was arrested by the Anti-Corruption Unit on March 31 for allegedly taking $1,000 to expediate paperwork for a Cambodian woman who represents a company that exports sports clothes to Brazil.
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Sokha’s appeal motion shot down by court
The Appeals Court yesterday turned down a motion filed by acting CNRP president Kem Sokha to halt judicial proceedings brought against him by a lower court for failing to respond to multiple summonses. Sokha, who again chose not to appear before the court, was represented by five attorneys who put forth his case that the summonses Sokha received for ignoring other summonses relating to his alleged sex scandal were illegal.
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CNRP Reaches Out to Sar Kheng for Talks Amid Turmoil
Deputy opposition leader Kem Sokha, whom the prime minister last week threatened to imprison “forever,” has reached out to Interior Minister Sar Kheng to seek talks, a senior opposition lawmaker said on Monday. Mr. Sokha has been hiding in the CNRP’s headquarters since May 26, when police tried to arrest him as part of a sex scandal being investigated by authorities, but he has not been touched since, with the opposition threatening mass protests if he is jailed.
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Concerns aired at HRC over gov't treatment of Sokha, civil society
Multiple countries yesterday raised concerns at a Human Rights Council session in Geneva over the “deterioration” of the human rights situation in Cambodia and the “harassment” of acting CNRP president Kem Sokha.
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Government Passes Law to Regulate Organ Donation
Ruling party lawmakers unanimously passed a law regulating how human cells, tissue and organs can be donated or used in the country during a session on Thursday at the National Assembly, with the CNRP continuing its boycott of parliament in protest of a legal assault against the opposition.
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Ex-US Ambassador to UN in Fraud Case
Four American nationals including former United States Ambassador to the United Nations Sichan Siv will be tried by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court next week on allegations of fraud.
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CNRP activist, guards spar over brawl account
An opposition activist sentenced to two years’ jail over a violent brawl between protesters and Daun Penh security guards near the prime minister’s house in 2014 argued with court officials and prosecution witnesses during his appeal yesterday.
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Deputy PM Calls for Probe of Interference Claims in Assault Case
Deputy Prime Minister Men Sam An’s cabinet has requested an investigation into a government critic who accused Prime Minister Hun Sen of helping to repatriate a senior Education Ministry official who sexually assaulted his interpreter in South Korea because the official is Ms. Sam An’s lover.
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In Appeal, Activist Calls Hun Sen an ‘Enemy’
Jailed opposition activist Ouk Pich Samnang said during a Court of Appeal hearing on Thursday that his rage was directed at Prime Minister Hun Sen, not local authorities, when he drove his tuk-tuk through a metal barricade during a protest in Phnom Penh, earning him two years in prison.
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Rainsy ‘Optimistic’ About Return
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy, who is now in exile, told senior Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) officials that foreign reaction and condemnations of recent government action was due in part to his efforts at the European Union (EU) and abroad, and said he was optimistic he would be able to return to Cambodia soon.
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Council drops case over Global Apparels strikes
The Arbitration Council this week terminated the case involving the ongoing dispute between workers and the Malaysian-owned Global Apparels Limited factory in Phnom Penh, citing employees’ refusal to stop striking while the case was in arbitration.
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Ministry seeks legal action over Facebook ‘defamation’
The Ministry for National Assembly-Senate Relations has called for legal action against a Facebook user who accused its head, Men Sam An, of having an affair with disgraced Education Ministry official Kry Seang Long.
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Banteay Meanchey’s Top Prosecutor Ousted, Sent to Ministry
Banteay Meanchey Provincial Court chief prosecutor Phann Vanrath, who prosecuted the trial of corrupt former national anti-drug czar Moek Dara, has been removed from his position and transferred to a Justice Ministry job.
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FA seizes 12 trucks with illegal wood in Kratie
Kratie Forestry Administration forces in cooperation with provincial armed forces seized 12 trucks laden with illegal timber yesterday. Horn Poch, deputy chief of order and traffic police in Kratie province, yesterday said the operation took place in Kratie town’s O’Russey commune.
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Journalist Guilty in Extortion Case
The guilty verdict in the case of a journalist who extorted $1,000 from a deputy governor in Kampot province in exchange for not reporting the governor’s land grabbing activities in 2014 was upheld by the Appeal Court yesterday.
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Phnom Penh prosecutor transferred to Banteay Meanchey
Phnom Penh Municipal Court deputy prosecutor Meas Chanpiseth has been transferred to a prosecutor position at the Banteay Meanchey Provincial Court, according to a royal decree signed on Wednesday.
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