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Teenager Charged With Raping 4-Year-Old Neighbor
A teenage boy who allegedly raped his 4-year-old neighbor in Siem Reap province’s Angkor Thom district earlier this month—and attempted to rape her again last week—has been arrested and charged, police said Tuesday.
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Ministry Presses Ahead With Draft Union Law
Labor Minister Ith Sam Heng said Tuesday that he hoped to have a draft of a controversial union law before the Council of Ministers next month and put to a vote at the National Assembly in short order. Despite a few major concessions to its critics though, some unions remain concerned about the legislation
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Human Trafficking Still Rife In Cambodia, US Report Says
Amid numerous reports of Cambodian women being trafficked to China and men being used as forced labor on fishing boats, the U.S.’ latest Trafficking in Persons report again said Cambodia is not doing enough to combat human trafficking.
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Bar Association Accuses Rights Monitor of Legal Interference
The Bar Association of the Kingdom of Cambodia on Tuesday wrote to local rights group Adhoc accusing its head of monitoring, Ny Chakrya, of flouting legal practice by ordering the NGO’s lawyers to hand over for examination all documents relating to cases they defend.
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Sokha Visits Activists, Calls for Release on Appeal
As CNRP Vice President Kem Sokha visited the 11 opposition activists serving jail terms for “insurrection” at Phnom Penh’s Prey Sar prison Monday, Prime Minister Hun Sen said the seven- to 20-year sentences handed down to them last week were “very light.”
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Enforcement of Traffic Law to Begin With Speeding
Implementation of the new Land Traffic Law that was passed in December will officially begin on January 1, an official said Monday, with police focusing on the leading causes of traffic accidents, starting with speeding.
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Chhouk Bandith's victims see hope in Sok Bun arrest
Three factory workers shot more than three years ago by a town governor who remains at large have come to Phnom Penh to ask Prime Minister Hun Sen to take action in their case, given the recent success of the premier’s call to arrest a property tycoon for beating up a TV star. On February 20, 2012, during a protest at the Kaoway shoe factory in Svay Rieng province, then Bavet town governor Chhouk Bandith shot into the crowd numerous times with a pistol, injuring the three female workers.
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FTU boss to sit out meet
The president of the Free Trade Union is slated to boycott this morning’s final meeting to discuss the trade union law, held at the Ministry of Labour. FTU president Chea Mony said yesterday that it would be “useless” for him to participate, because “we all know the result in advance”. “Most of the members of the Labour Advisory Committee at the Labour Ministry who are joining the discussion are pro-government and government officials, so it is useless for me join,” he said.
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Survey of Garment Workers’ Expenses to Come
Hoping to help fill the void in reliable data that has stymied past negotiations on the minimum wage for the country’s garment workers, an international team of labor rights groups Monday hired a local research firm to find out exactly how much the workers are spending on living costs.
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Women Shot by Governor Ask For the Same Treatment as Sasa
Three women who were shot by the governor of Bavet City in 2012 while protesting outside a garment factory in Svay Rieng province on Monday appealed for high-level intervention—as occurred following the assault of television personality Ek Socheata earlier this month—to bring their attacker to justice.
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Anti-trafficking status static
For the third straight year in a row, Cambodia has found itself on the Tier 2 Watch List of the US State Department’s annual Trafficking in Persons Report, a ranking reflective of a seeming inability to fully implement the country’s own anti-trafficking plan. A Tier 2 ranking indicates a country does not meet the minimum standards of the US’ Trafficking Victims Protection Act, but is making “significant efforts” to do so. Being placed on the “Watch List”, however, indicates a lack of evidence of “increasing efforts” to fight against severe trafficking, including increased protections for victims and prosecutions for perpetrators and complicit authorities.
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Over 70 Faint at Kompong Speu Garment Factory
More than 70 workers fainted over three days at a garment factory in Kompong Speu province after complaining of difficulty breathing, a unionist and employee said Monday.
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Six Arrested, Released Over NGO Law Protest
Authorities in Phnom Penh on Sunday arrested and released six people dressed in prison uniforms and chained together by their legs for protesting outside the National Assembly against a recently approved law that threatens to muzzle NGOs critical of the government.
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Dozens sent to Prey Speu
Authorities rounded up around 30 homeless people in Phnom Penh’s Daun Penh district late last week and sent most of them for detention in the notorious Prey Speu detention centre, despite mounting criticism regarding the human rights violations in the government facility. According to a report from Daun Penh authorities issued yesterday, police imprisoned a total of 31 people in Prey Speu – or Por Sen Chey Vocational Training Centre – between Thursday and Saturday for living on the streets.
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NGOs Call for Review of LANGO by Constitutional Council
PHNOM PENH (Khmer Times) – Opponents of the controversial draft law on associations and NGOs (LANGO) hope that the Constitutional Council can succeed where protests and vote boycotts have failed. The LANGO passed the Senate 44-0 on Friday despite widespread protests and a vote boycott by opposition lawmakers. Now it requires only the formality of a Royal signature. As a last-ditch effort to stop the law, Transparency International, watchdog Licadho, and other organizations have petitioned the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) to ask the Constitutional Council to review the legislation. They argue that the restrictions it places on associations violate the freedom of association and expression protected by Article 41 of the Constitution. It would be unprecedented for the Council to amend such a major piece of legislation. Though technically an independent body of the judiciary, the Constitutional Council has only rarely gone against the National Assembly and demanded changes to laws. Even the architects of the plan to petition the Council are not optimistic.
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Lawmaker Asks Heng Samrin for Forgiveness; Punishment Stands
Responding to an apology from opposition lawmaker Um Sam An, who was punished last week for a critical Facebook post, National Assembly President Heng Samrin wrote on Saturday that the dispute would end with the decision to sanction the outspoken parliamentarian.
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‘SEA SLAVES’: THE HUMAN MISERY THAT FEEDS PETS AND LIVESTOCK
SONGKHLA, Thailand — Lang Long’s ordeal began in the back of a truck. After watching his younger siblings go hungry because their family’s rice patch in Cambodia could not provide for everyone, he accepted a trafficker’s offer to travel across the Thai border for a construction job. It was his chance to start over. But when he arrived, Mr. Long was kept for days by armed men in a room near the port at Samut Prakan, more than a dozen miles southeast of Bangkok. He was then herded with six other migrants up a gangway onto a shoddy wooden ship. It was the start of three brutal years in captivity at sea. “I cried,” said Mr. Long, 30, recounting how he was resold twice between fishing boats. After repeated escape attempts, one captain shackled him by the neck whenever other boats neared.
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NGO Director Claims Visit to Border Blocked
An NGO director claimed Sunday that authorities in Svay Rieng province blocked a group he was leading from visiting homes they had rebuilt near the Vietnamese border in Romeas Hek district.
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CNRP Lawmaker Punished Over Facebook Post
Opposition lawmaker Um Sam An has been suspended from the next 15 sessions of parliament and will have his salary cut as punishment for critical comments he posted to Facebook earlier this month, according to a statement issued Friday by the National Assembly’s Secretariat General. Mr. Sam An, whose post on July 14 claimed that CPP Assembly President Heng Samrin had unconstitutionally blocked a letter to Prime Minister Hun Sen, will also be publicly shamed through notifications posted at commune offices in his constituency of Siem Reap province, the statement said.
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“Please Forgive Me,†CNRP Lawmaker Asks
PHNOM PENH (Khmer Times) – After being suspended from his seat in the National Assembly, for criticizing its president on Facebook on July 14, Cambodia National Rescue Party lawmaker Um Sam An has apologized for the comments and asked for forgiveness. “I have used impolite language about Samdech president on social media affecting the reputation of Samdech president,” Mr. Sam An wrote in his letter to National Assembly President Heng Samrin. “My impolite behavior and words have affected the prestige of the National Assembly as well as the reputation of Samdech president,” he continued. “Please Samdech president forgive me accordingly,” he requested in the July 24 letter.
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