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CAMBODIAN GOVERNMENT SET TO APPROVE STRICT NGO REGULATIONS
perating a nongovernmental organization in Cambodia is about to get a lot more complicated. The Southeast Asian country is set to approve strict regulations this week that are similar to controversial laws proposed in other parts of the world. As it turns out, China and Egypt aren’t the only countries making headlines for their attempts to tighten the grip around domestic and international nongovernmental organizations’ (NGOs) ability to operate.
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GMAC hits out over Akeentex
In a statement released on Monday, the Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) condemned union officials leading a strike at a Phnom Penh garment factory. Union leaders at the Collective Union of Movement of Workers (CUMW) have been assisting workers at Akeentex Pte Ltd’s branches in Por Sen Chey and Meanchey districts, who began striking almost two weeks ago.
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Facebook Battle over NGO Law
PHNOM PENH (Khmer Times) – The National Assembly may have approved the contentious Law on Associations and NGOs (LANGO), but some young people are still urging the government to scrap it. Students have been posting pictures of themselves in handcuffs or prison garb on social media to fight the law. En Ven Kakada, a college student in Phnom Penh who works at a local NGO with a friend, said they posted the picture of themselves in prison jumpsuits to show how they feel about the law. She said the law restricts the rights of people and the organization she works for is in danger of being shut down due to their adversarial relationship with the government “Senate Should Block Law” “I want the Senate to stop the NGO law. I and other people will wear prison clothes on Sunday this week in front of the Cambodian Assembly to express dissatisfaction with the law,” Ms. Kakada said.
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Provinces mobilise to protest LANGO as law goes to Senate
Two days before the repressive Law on Associations and NGOs (LANGO) goes before the Senate, community and civil society groups across 13 provinces continue ongoing protests against the law. Across the country, over a thousand people from community groups, monks’ networks, unions and NGOs released balloons with anti-LANGO messages, held community forums to discuss the impact of the law, distributed leaflets on the law, and in some areas marched through towns to provincial lawmakers’ officers. In Siem Reap, police blocked the road as marchers approached the hall and dispersed the protest.
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District Police Chief Denies Raping Student
A district police chief in Kompong Chhnang province was on Tuesday questioned over accusations that he raped a high-school student in his office earlier this month and threatened to kill the woman’s family if she told anyone about the assault.
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Freedom Park 11 jailed
Eleven opposition activists, including a US citizen, were handed lengthy prison sentences yesterday for their roles in a protest at Phnom Penh’s Freedom Park last year that turned violent and left dozens injured. In a decision that came as a surprise to many, judge Lim Makaron ruled that the Cambodia National Rescue Party members were guilty of trying to foment an “insurrection” by taking part in a demonstration led by CNRP lawmakers at the public square on July 15, 2014. “The 11 activists were sent to jail after the lawyers boycotted the trial today,” Sam Sokong, lawyer for the defence, said after the ruling
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Phnom Penh Governor Accuses NGOs of Pay-to-Protest Scheme
Phnom Penh Governor Pa Socheatvong on Monday accused unnamed NGOs of paying a group of well-known protesters from the city’s Boeng Kak and Borei Keila neighborhoods to demonstrate on behalf of their various causes and urged them to set the women “free.”
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CNRP seeks intervention for detainees
Opposition lawmakers have demanded the Minister of Foreign Affairs intervene to help scores of Cambodian workers detained in Malaysia since April, accusing the Kingdom’s embassy of ignoring their plight. In a letter expected to be sent today, Cambodia National Rescue Party lawmaker Son Chhay urges Foreign Minster Hor Namhong to investigate the case of Cambodian Muslims arrested in Kampung Dalek Kanan village, on the outskirts of Klang, a city in the Malaysian state of Selangor.
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Court to Fast-Track Trial of ‘Insurrectionists’
A year after a protest at Freedom Park that turned violent and was labeled an attempted insurrection, the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Monday announced that it would fast-track the trial of 11 men arrested in its aftermath and ordered them not to leave the country.
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Cashew Worker Arrested Over Rape of Girl, 11
A man was arrested and sent to Kompong Cham provincial police headquarters Monday after he allegedly raped an 11-year-old girl at a cashew plantation in Choeung Prey district, according to police.
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Protesters decry ‘land grabbing’
About 300 protesters from Svay Rieng and Preah Sihanouk provinces marched to parliament yesterday to file petitions urging the local authorities to intervene to resolve ongoing land disputes in their homelands. Farmers from Takeo province joined the demonstrators in a show of solidarity, while a further 200 protesters from a farming community were blocked from marching to the capital by Svay Rieng’s Romeas Hek district authorities, community representative Va Phea said.
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CNRP Activists Convicted on Insurrection Charges
Eleven CNRP activists standing trial on insurrection charges over their roles in a violent protest on July 15 last year were found guilty by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Tuesday afternoon and sentenced to between seven and 20 years in prison.
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Workers protest court injuction
Days after Phnom Penh Municipal Court issued an injunction ordering striking workers at a Phnom Penh garment factory to return to work within 48 hours, strike supporters demonstrated outside the court yesterday. Judge Pich Maren released the return-to-work order on Thursday, after Akeentex Pte Ltd, where workers at their Meanchey and Por Sen Chey district branches walked off the job about two weeks ago, filed a complaint to the court.
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Lawmaker’s immunity threatened
Ruling party lawmaker Chheang Vun yesterday said opposition parliamentarian Um Sam An’s legal immunity could be suspended for criticising National Assembly President Heng Samrin, but refused to specify what law, if any, the Cambodia National Rescue Party member had broken. Echoing comments made last week, Vun again warned Sam An could face legal repercussions for accusing Samrin of abusing the constitution over his refusal to forward a letter about the contentious Vietnamese border issue to Prime Minister Hun Sen.
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Farmers Ask Lawmakers to Settle Land Disputes
About 250 farmers representing more than 700 families from Preah Sihanouk and Svay Rieng provinces traveled to Phnom Penh on Monday to protest in front of the National Assembly, where they handed petitions to lawmakers asking them to intervene in their land disputes.
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Villagers Petition Cambodian Lawmakers for Help With Land Dispute Cases
About 200 villagers involved in land disputes in three provinces protested Monday outside Cambodia’s parliament building in Phnom Penh, demanding that lawmakers resolve their cases and threatening not to vote for those who turn down their requests. The villagers from Sihanoukville, Svay Rieng, and Takeo provinces carried posters with details of the disputes they have had with land concession companies for years without resolution. The villagers took turns telling lawmakers about their disputes and the negative impact the disagreements have had on their livelihoods. Chhum Sat, a villager involved in a dispute with a Chinese land concession company, said she did not have any land to cultivate to make a living.
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Opposition Leader Threatens to Play American Card
PHNOM PENH (Khmer Times) – Meach Sovannara, lead spokesman for the opposition, threatened to play the American card if the Municipal Court does not drop its investigation of him for his role in violent protests at Freedom Park last year. “I will not leave my country, but the court must ensure me justice,” he said. “Otherwise, I will exercise my privilege as an American citizen to complain to the American courts, and then this issue is going to get bigger.” It has been one year since violence broke out at Freedom Park between security forces and lawmakers from the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP).
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Tycoon Jailed For Assault After Arrest at Airport
Real-estate tycoon Sok Bun was imprisoned on charges of intentional violence on Saturday over the savage assault of a female television personality earlier this month, footage of which went viral on social media days after the attack.
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Fisherman Who Repeatedly Raped Daughters, 7 and 9, Jailed
A widower in Battambang province who repeatedly raped his young daughters after forcing them to watch pornographic videos on his laptop was arrested in Ek Phnom district last week and jailed on aggravated rape charges over the weekend, police said Sunday.
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Chea Mony Vows to Step Down as Union Chief
After 11 years as president of the Free Trade Union, Chea Mony said Sunday that he would not seek re-election as head of one of the country’s largest unions, which launched Cambodia’s labor movement nearly two decades ago.
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