Cambodia: End Threats to Opposition Lawmaker One of Parliament’s Few Women Faces Criminal Defamation Suit

05-May-2009

Publication : Press Release

(New York) - Prime Minister Hun Sen and other senior members of the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) should stop threatening to orchestrate the removal of lawmakers’ parliamentary immunity in order to silence government critics, Human Rights Watch said today.In a speech on April 29, 2009, Hun Sen said that it would be "as easy as ABC" to have the parliamentary immunity lifted for Mu Sochua, a National Assembly member. This would permit the government to bring criminal charges against her and prosecute her for publicly criticizing the prime minister. The Phnom Penh Municipal Court has summoned Sochua to court on May 7.

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