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Koh Kong crackdown
Seventeen human rights monitors, journalists and protesters were arrested in Koh Kong province yesterday morning when police and alleged “instigators” cracked down on a peaceful demonstration calling for the release of three imprisoned environmental activists. The group was held at the provincial police station for about eight hours, where they were interrogated about their “involvement” in the protest before eventually being released at 6:15pm. Speaking from the police station, In Kongchit, a provincial coordinator for rights group Licadho who was among those arrested, said he had been questioned about the purpose of the protest and who was leading it.
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Police Arrest 17 at Protest In Koh Kong
Police in Koh Kong province on Wednesday arrested 17 people—including four rights workers—near the provincial courthouse as protesters continued to call for the release of three jailed environmental activists, according to officials. The group was released shortly after 6 p.m.
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Bid to dismiss treason charges fails
The Court of Appeal yesterday ruled to keep opposition Senator Hong Sok Hour in prison, rejecting a bid by his lawyers to have his charges dismissed and arrest ruled illegal. Appeal Court judge Khun Leang Meng upheld the Phnom Penh Municipal Court’s decision to arrest and charge the Sam Rainsy Party senator, despite his parliamentary immunity, according to Sok Hour’s lawyers Choung Choungy and Sam Sokong. Meng declined to release Sok Hour, a dual French-Cambodian citizen, over fears the lawmaker would “cause trouble” and would escape, his lawyers said.
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Hun Sen on offensive again
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday mocked Cambodian National Rescue Party leader Sam Rainsy for failing to secure the release of CNRP activists and an opposition senator, who, the premier added, were imprisoned because of the party’s “troublemaking”. In his latest goading of Rainsy since their so-called “culture of dialogue” took a backseat to disputes over the Vietnam border, Hun Sen called his counterpart’s pledge to free his imprisoned troops a “lie” and mocked his impotence thus far. “If you are good at lying [to people] like this, how can you rule the country? It is impossible,” Hun Sen said. “You said you would free [the imprisoned opposition figures] by August, but now it is September and you still cannot do it. This is lying. “What are you thinking about people who supported you?”
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New group formed to help migrant workers
A group of Cambodians in Thailand have formed an association to provide legal aid to the country’s Cambodian factory workers, saying the workers risk abuse due to their lack of proper documentation and knowledge of labour laws. The Cambodian Friendship Migrant Workers Association in Thailand, which is mostly composed of Cambodian factory supervisors and Cambodians who graduated from Thai universities, was created on June 28 and now has about 40 members, according to Som Serimony, one of its founders.
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CNRP trio seek asylum
Three Cambodia National Rescue Party staff members have fled, via Thailand, to another country in the region and are applying for asylum in third countries after being linked to the case of imprisoned opposition Senator Hong Sok Hour, sources have said. The group – believed to be those called out by Prime Minister Hun Sen in a speech on Tuesday – fled to Thailand on August 19 after their names were mentioned during police interviews with Sok Hour, according to two sources with knowledge of the matter. Two of the men – Satya Sambath, 25, and Chong Leang Ueng, 20 – administer the Facebook page of CNRP President Sam Rainsy, while the third, 24-year-old David Sambath, brother of Satya, is a personal assistant to Sok Hour, a Sam Rainsy Party senator.
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ADB Confirms Receipt of Latest Request From Railway Families
he Asian Development Bank has received a complaint from 22 Cambodians who say the lender is falling short in its efforts to fix the mistakes it has made in planning and carrying out its ongoing rehabilitation of the country’s dilapidated railway tracks.
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Opposition Senator’s Request for Bail Rejected by Appeal Court
Opposition Senator Hong Sok Hour’s appeal against a decision to deny him bail on forgery and incitement charges was rejected Wednesday, with the judge saying that the 59-year-old presents a threat to social order, according to the senator’s lawyer.
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Two More Arrested Sending Brides to China
A young couple has confessed to trafficking Cambodian women to be sold to men in China after they were arrested at the Phnom Penh International Airport Tuesday night while preparing to board a flight to Shanghai with their two latest victims, police said. Keo Thea, chief of Phnom Penh’s anti-human trafficking police, said that when questioned, To Ma, 25, and his wife Nay Theavy, 24, confessed to having trafficked one woman to China previously, though police believe the pair is responsible for sending at least four women to China under false pretenses.
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Unpaid workers ready to ‘burn down factory’
More than 150 garment workers at the Tien Tien factory in Kandal province have threatened to burn down their workplace after its Chinese owner disappeared without paying them almost a month ago. Dip Sopheakdey, a 30-year-old worker, said yesterday that the owner escaped on August 6 for reasons that remain unclear, leaving about $30,000 in unpaid wages. She said that authorities had not responded to petitions and marches from the workers, causing them to threaten to set the now-abandoned factory alight.
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Koh Kong Court Protesters Told to Leave or Be Forced to Move
Khemara Phoumint City deputy governor Pen Bunchhouy on Tuesday issued a letter to a group of protesters demanding that they vacate the area in front of the Koh Kong Provincial Court by Wednesday, threatening “action” if they refused.
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Police Blame Family for Stalled Probe Into Lost Boy
Authorities have been unable to investigate the fate of a 16-year-old boy who disappeared after he was seen bleeding profusely during the January 2014 rampage by military police on Phnom Penh’s Veng Sreng Street because no complaint was filed, the National Police said this week. On January 3, 2014, military police armed with AK-47 rifles ended a nationwide strike of garment workers, who were demanding a $160 monthly minimum wage, when they stormed the factory-lined boulevard on Phnom Penh’s industrial outskirts, shooting or beating dead at least five people taking part in a violent protest. Yet only four of the bodies were recovered and identified by human rights groups at hospitals around Phnom Penh. The body of Khem Sophath was never found.
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CNRP Lawmaker Denies Border Incitement, Predicts Arrest
Opposition lawmaker Um Sam An on Tuesday denied claims by the government that he was inciting instability in a Facebook post last week in which he boasted about finding a copy of a map of Cambodia’s border with Vietnam at the U.S. Library of Congress.
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Rights Group Activists Are Detained For Monitoring Protests in Cambodia's Koh Kong
Seventeen members of a Cambodian rights group and environmental NGO were briefly detained by authorities in Cambodia’s southeastern Koh Kong province Wednesday as they observed protests calling for the release of three activists held for interfering with sand-dredging operations, sources said. The 17 activists from the rights groups Licadho and Adhoc and environmental advocacy group Mother Nature were taken into custody in the afternoon and questioned on their role in the protests, which are now entering their third week.
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Police Apprehend Facebook Fraudster in Phnom Penh
Police on Monday arrested a woman in Phnom Penh who allegedly set up a fake Facebook account under the assumed identity of another woman in order to defraud her out of thousands of dollars.
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Seventeen Laborers Walk Home to Cambodia After Being Trafficked in Thailand
Seventeen laborers from Cambodia have returned home after they were trafficked to work in Thailand’s logging industry and had their pay withheld, forcing them to walk back to the border, a rights group said Wednesday. The 17 had been lured into Thailand with promises of well-paying jobs, but ended up cutting timber in Chonburi province, Sum Chankea of Cambodian rights group Adhoc told RFA’s Khmer Service. “They walked several hundred kilometers (one kilometer = three-fifths of a mile) because they didn’t have any money for transportation,” said Sum Chankea, who is provincial coordinator for Adhoc in Banteay Meanchey province, where the 17 crossed over the border from Thailand.
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Police Told to Target Known Human Trafficking Establishments
National Police Commissioner Neth Savoeun called a high-level meeting in Phnom Penh on Monday to instruct relevant police units to increase their surveillance of establishments known to deal in human trafficking.
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Victims recall families’ demise
Following one day’s adjournment due to a defence walkout last week, ECCC proceedings resumed yesterday with the hearing of two civil party’s testimony on harms suffered at the January 1 dam worksite , as well as the chamber’s response to the defence’s document presentation grievances. Survivor Nuon Narom began the day’s testimony by describing how work was divided by gender. Men dug the soil while women like Narom carried it, with quotas to displace 2 cubic metres of dirt daily. The work was so toilsome, Narom said, “the skin on my shoulders came off”. Narom recalled workers fainting and collapsing, and when one female labourer in her unit requested rest, she was beaten.
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Cambodia Suspends Australian Refugee Deal
Boys walk in front of a house that is used to temporarily house asylum seekers sent from a South Pacific detention centre, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia August 31, 2015. Interior Ministry spokesman Khieu Sopheak said on Sunday that the Cambodian government do not have “plans to import more refugees” than the four individuals they have already accepted and believe that ‘the less they receive the better’. Australia has vowed to stop asylum seekers sailing from Indonesia and Sri Lanka and landing on its shores, instead intercepting boats and shifting the people to camps in Papua New Guinea and Nauru.
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New doubts, new maps
A researcher investigating Cambodia’s border demarcation has cast doubt on whether the late King Norodom Sihanouk indeed deposited maps with the United Nations in 1964, which the opposition says are the original, constitutionally recognised charts of the Kingdom. The comments by Sok Touch, head of the border research team at the Cambodian Royal Academy, came as the government set Thursday as the date for verifying the maps it uses for demarcation against charts to be delivered from France. Amid disputes over alleged Vietnamese encroachment, the government has of late asked several foreign countries for copies of the “Bonne” maps, developed by the French colonial authorities to mark Cambodia’s borders, in order to “verify” its own demarcation charts.
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