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Judicial Intimidation of a Lawyer Representing an Opposition Party Activist
On 29 December 2011, Mr Choung Chou-Ngy was charged under Article 565 of the 2009 Criminal Code of the Kingdom of Cambodia (the “Penal Code”) – “Provision of Means for Escape”. This charge has been brought in response to the release of Mr Choung Chou-Ngy’s client, Mr Meas Peng, deputy chief of Banteay Dek commune in Kandal province’s Kien Svay district, from prison on 23 September 2011. The Cambodia Daily reported that the Kandal provincial court found that Mr Choung Chou-Ngy’s actions in helping his client to be released from prison were not in accordance with the laws of his profession, and that they in fact constituted helping his client to escape – a penal offense. The Kandal provincial court has since confirmed that Mr Choung Chou-Ngy has been charged.
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Civil Society Groups Condemn Violent Eviction of Borei Keila Residents
January 3, 2012 - HRTF, CYN, IDEA, BABC, CLEC, BKLW, ACRP, CCFC, FADP, PLCN and LICADHO strongly condemns today’s violent destruction of the homes of some 300 families living in Phnom Penh’s Borei Keila settlement. The destruction of these homes marks yet another sad turn for a development that was once promoted as a model alternative to the eviction and off-site relocation of the Phnom Penh’s urban poor.
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Civil Society Groups Condemn Violent Eviction of Borei Keila Residents
January 3, 2012 - HRTF, CYN, IDEA, BABC, CLEC, BKLW, ACRP, CCFC, FADP, PLCN and LICADHO strongly condemns today’s violent destruction of the homes of some 300 families living in Phnom Penh’s Borei Keila settlement. The destruction of these homes marks yet another sad turn for a development that was once promoted as a model alternative to the eviction and off-site relocation of the Phnom Penh’s urban poor.
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Civil Society Groups Condemn Violent Eviction of Borei Keila Residents
January 3, 2012 - HRTF, CYN, IDEA, BABC, CLEC, BKLW, ACRP, CCFC, FADP, PLCN and LICADHO strongly condemns today’s violent destruction of the homes of some 300 families living in Phnom Penh’s Borei Keila settlement. The destruction of these homes marks yet another sad turn for a development that was once promoted as a model alternative to the eviction and off-site relocation of the Phnom Penh’s urban poor.
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Judicial Intimidation of a Lawyer Representing an Opposition Party Activist
On 29 December 2011, Mr Choung Chou-Ngy was charged under Article 565 of the 2009 Criminal Code of the Kingdom of Cambodia (the “Penal Code”) – “Provision of Means for Escape”. This charge has been brought in response to the release of Mr Choung Chou-Ngy’s client, Mr Meas Peng, deputy chief of Banteay Dek commune in Kandal province’s Kien Svay district, from prison on 23 September 2011. The Cambodia Daily reported that the Kandal provincial court found that Mr Choung Chou-Ngy’s actions in helping his client to be released from prison were not in accordance with the laws of his profession, and that they in fact constituted helping his client to escape – a penal offense. The Kandal provincial court has since confirmed that Mr Choung Chou-Ngy has been charged.
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Judicial Intimidation of a Lawyer Representing an Opposition Party Activist
On 29 December 2011, Mr Choung Chou-Ngy was charged under Article 565 of the 2009 Criminal Code of the Kingdom of Cambodia (the “Penal Code”) – “Provision of Means for Escape”. This charge has been brought in response to the release of Mr Choung Chou-Ngy’s client, Mr Meas Peng, deputy chief of Banteay Dek commune in Kandal province’s Kien Svay district, from prison on 23 September 2011. The Cambodia Daily reported that the Kandal provincial court found that Mr Choung Chou-Ngy’s actions in helping his client to be released from prison were not in accordance with the laws of his profession, and that they in fact constituted helping his client to escape – a penal offense. The Kandal provincial court has since confirmed that Mr Choung Chou-Ngy has been charged.
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Civil Society Groups Condemn Violent Eviction of Borei Keila Residents
January 3, 2012 - HRTF, CYN, IDEA, BABC, CLEC, BKLW, ACRP, CCFC, FADP, PLCN and LICADHO strongly condemns today’s violent destruction of the homes of some 300 families living in Phnom Penh’s Borei Keila settlement. The destruction of these homes marks yet another sad turn for a development that was once promoted as a model alternative to the eviction and off-site relocation of the Phnom Penh’s urban poor.
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3 indigenous communities to receive communal land titles
Three indigenous villages comprising 329 families in the northeast region of Cambodia have been granted communal land titles by the Royal Government, the first to be issued in the country. In a joint ceremony on 14 December 2011 in Rattanakiri province, community members of Le En village in Teun commune, Koun Mom district and La L’eun Kraen village in Ou Chum commune, Ou Chum district, received their certificates of collective land title for 1,454 hectares and 920 hectares, respectively.
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3 indigenous communities to receive communal land titles
Three indigenous villages comprising 329 families in the northeast region of Cambodia have been granted communal land titles by the Royal Government, the first to be issued in the country. In a joint ceremony on 14 December 2011 in Rattanakiri province, community members of Le En village in Teun commune, Koun Mom district and La L’eun Kraen village in Ou Chum commune, Ou Chum district, received their certificates of collective land title for 1,454 hectares and 920 hectares, respectively.
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3 indigenous communities to receive communal land titles
Three indigenous villages comprising 329 families in the northeast region of Cambodia have been granted communal land titles by the Royal Government, the first to be issued in the country. In a joint ceremony on 14 December 2011 in Rattanakiri province, community members of Le En village in Teun commune, Koun Mom district and La L’eun Kraen village in Ou Chum commune, Ou Chum district, received their certificates of collective land title for 1,454 hectares and 920 hectares, respectively.
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