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Dey Krahorm Community Representative under Threat of Arrest
LICADHO is concerned that Phnom Penh police may seek to arrest a representative of the Dey Krahorm community on unjustified allegations of stealing or damaging a mobile phone. The community representative, a woman, was involved in an incident with a 7NG company security guard during a news media conference by the Dey Krahorm community this morning. The security guard approached the woman, who was standing several meters away from the media conference, and attempted to photograph her with his mobile phone. The woman brushed the security guard’s hand away, trying to prevent him from photographing her, and the phone fell to the floor. The security guard then left the area, without picking up his telephone, and made a complaint to local police that the woman had stolen his phone. The phone was later given to the police by Dey Krahorm community members.
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Cambodia: Suspicious Custodial Death Underlines Need for Protection of Suspects’ Rights
On August 21, 2007 at 6 a.m. a wealthy and well-connected businessman named Oum Chhay, who had been arrested on suspicion of drug-trafficking, was found lying dead on his back on the ground beneath the balcony of the office of the Anti-Drug Department in Phnom Penh. The police immediately said that the suspect had committed suicide by jumping from a first floor window when he went to the toilet.
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Cambodia: More Effective Measures are Required to End Torture
Cambodia acceded to the Convention against (CAT) in 1992. Its criminal law, adopted in the same year, has succinctly criminalised torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment of detainees and punishes any public agent who violates this right with one to five years in prison.
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International Children’s Day 2007: Child Abuse in Public and Behind Closed Doors
September 2006, ten girls aged between 14 and 17 year were persuaded by a fellow villager in Kompong Cham province to travel to Phnom Penh after they were promised jobs as domestic workers. However after arriving in Phnom Penh they were promptly taken to a local market where they were openly sold for 50.000 riel each. Fortunately this "auction" was witnessed by an LICADHO staff who obtained information from one of the vitims and proceeded to work with LICADHO colleagues and other NGOs to ensure that all girls were found and returned safely to their families in the provinces.
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