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CCHR and CLC Letter to H.E. Sar Kheng Regarding Refusal to Visit Mr.Vorn Pao and Seven Others Detainees Arrested on 2 January 2014
We, the Cambodian Center for Human Rights and the Cambodian Labour Organization would like to express our grave concern over the refusal made by the General Department of Prison of the Ministry of Interior on 24 January 2014 regarding our request to visit Mr. Vorn Pao and seven other detainees arrested during the demonstration on 2 January 2014.
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Dropping Phnom Penh Sugar without compensating its victims will not relieve ANZ’s responsibility
(January 29, 2014) Equitable Cambodia and Inclusive Development International call upon ANZ to right the wrongs it has done by financing the Phnom Penh Sugar plantation and not just jump ship.
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Joint Statement by the Royal Government of Cambodia and the United Nations high-level Delegation Regarding the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia
A constructive meeting was held yesterday between Deputy Prime Minister His Excellency Dr. Sok An, Minister in charge of the Office of the Council of Ministers and Chairman of the Task Force on the Khmer Rouge Trials, and a high-level United Nations delegation led by the Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs, Mr Miguel de Serpa Soares, the UN Legal Counsel, accompanied by the Assistant Secretary-General, Ms Maria Eugenia Casar, the UN Controller and by Ambassador David Scheffer, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Expert on the UN Assistance to the Khmer Rouge Trials.
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ADHOC STRONGLY CONDEMNS CRACKDOWN ON FREEDOM OF ASSEMBLY
Phnom Penh, 27 January 2014 – The Cambodian Human Rights and Development Association (ADHOC) strongly condemns the continued illegal and systematic crackdown on freedom of assembly in Cambodia. At least 10 people were injured, three seriously, by military police and hired thugs this morning when government critic and owner of independent Beehive Radio, Mam Sonando, attempted to demonstrate with supporters at Freedom Park and outside the Ministry of Information in Phnom Penh. January has been a bloody month for the government; at least five people have been killed and scores more injured by security forces since the governments instigated a crackdown on assemblies.
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Cambodia: UN Should Condemn Rights Onslaught
(Geneva) – United Nations member countries should press the Cambodian government on its failure to keep previous commitments and demand that it fulfill new rights pledges. On January 28, 2014, Cambodia will appear before the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in Geneva.
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Failing Cambodia human Rights Record to be Reviewed at UN as Crackdown on Protests Continues
A coalition of human rights groups will urge the international community to address the increasingly severe crackdown on free speech in Cambodia tomorrow, at the United Nations in Geneva. The human rights situation in country has deteriorated markedly since 2009, when it last underwent the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), the process by which all UN Member States are assessed on a rolling basis by the Human Rights Council (UNHRC).
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Universal Periodic Review: Address Cambodia’s human rights crisis
Ahead of the UN Universal Periodic Review (UPR) hearing for Cambodia on 28 January 2014, the Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights (LICADHO) and Amnesty International call on UN member states to address the country’s current human rights crisis.
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Cambodia: detention of labour activists unjustified
The ICJ criticized the Phnom Penh Municipal Court’s decision to deny bail to 23 people who were arrested and detained earlier this month following protests by garment factory workers seeking a higher minimum wage. The detainees’ lawyers told the ICJ that the court denied bail for the first nine detainees, arrested on 2 January 2014, in order to “guarantee their presence for further legal proceedings”, “to preserve public order” and “to prevent instability that results from the commission of crimes”.
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Opposition CNRP meeting cancelled due to ruling party intimidation
A meeting of the opposition Cambodian National Rescue Party (“CNRP”) in Troeuy Sla commune in Kandal province was cancelled yesterday – 21 January 2014 – after several hundreds of Cambodian People’s Party (“CPP”) supporters and riot and military police armed with tear gas canisters, shields and batons were standing at the meeting venue.
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Cambodia: Harassment, arrest, and detention of human rights defenders continue
Phnom Penh, Paris, Geneva, January 22 – FIDH and the OMCT, within the framework of the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, the Cambodian Human Rights and Development Association (ADHOC), the Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights (LICADHO), and the Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR) express their concern over the Cambodian authorities’ ongoing harassment, arbitrary arrest, and detention of human rights defenders.
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CCHR calls for the immediate lift of the ban on assemblies and for a halt to the wave of detention of human rights activists
The Cambodian Center for Human Rights (“CCHR”) calls for the immediate lift of the current ban on assemblies and for a halt to the subsequent wave of detention of human rights activists. On 4 January 2014, the Ministry of Interior announced a ban on assemblies, demonstrations, and marches until “public order and security are restored.” Since the announcement human rights activists and peaceful protesters have been systematically temporarily arrested and required to sign letters agreeing to cease demonstrating.
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CCHR Human Rights Defender and Freedom of Expression Alert Update– Phnom Penh, 21 January 2014 Continuous Temporary Arrest of Human Rights Activists and Ban on Demonstrations
Today - 21 January 2014 – eleven human rights activists and peaceful protesters were temporarily arrested by Daun Penh security guards and taken to the Phnom Penh Municipal Police Station. Among the 11 arrested were Rong Chun, President of the Cambodian Independent Teachers Association (‘’CITA’’), Tep Vanny and Yorm Bopha along with seven other Boeng Kak Lake activists, a staff member of Housing Rights Task Force (‘’HRTF’’) and an activist from the Cambodian Alliance of Trade Unions (‘’CATU’’).
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