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NGO Worker Receives a Second Summons to Attend Questioning
On 30 November 2012, Phnom Penh Municipal Court issued a second summons for Mr. Chan Soveth, Senior Investigator at the Cambodian Human Rights and Development Association (“ADHOC”), to attend questioning on 24 December 2012 at 2:30 pmin relation to chargesof ’providing assistance to the perpetrator of a crime,’ under Article 544 of the Cambodian Criminal Code.A first summons was issued on 9 August 2012 for questioning on 24 August 2012 but the questioning was postponed because he was scheduled to attend a training workshop abroad.
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Announce to Press Agents and Human Right Organizations!
December, 2012 at 11.15 am, a local union’s leader of C.CAWDU in XINGCHANG factory names Mr. Chhim Samorn was hit with brass knuckles to be seriousness bythree violators. C.CAWDU sent the victim to the Calmet hospital for immediate treatment. Thisfactory is located in Tuol Sangke village, Sangkat Tuol Sangke, Khan Russey Keo, Phnom Penh opposite ROO HSING Garment Co., Ltd.
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Announce to Press Agents and Human Right Organizations!
December, 2012 at 11.15 am, a local union’s leader of C.CAWDU in XINGCHANG factory names Mr. Chhim Samorn was hit with brass knuckles to be seriousness bythree violators. C.CAWDU sent the victim to the Calmet hospital for immediate treatment. Thisfactory is located in Tuol Sangke village, Sangkat Tuol Sangke, Khan Russey Keo, Phnom Penh opposite ROO HSING Garment Co., Ltd.
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Cambodia: Investigate Government Cover-Up
(New York) –The Cambodian government should appoint an independent commission to investigate allegations that a ruling party municipal governor shot and wounded three women workers, Human Rights Watch said today. On December 14, 2012, the Svay Rieng provincial court closed the case against then-Bavet Municipality Governor Chhouk Bandit for allegedly firing into a crowd of striking factory employees at an industrial park in Bavet’s Special Economic Zone for foreign enterprises on February 20.
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Cambodia: Investigate Government Cover-Up
(New York) –The Cambodian government should appoint an independent commission to investigate allegations that a ruling party municipal governor shot and wounded three women workers, Human Rights Watch said today. On December 14, 2012, the Svay Rieng provincial court closed the case against then-Bavet Municipality Governor Chhouk Bandit for allegedly firing into a crowd of striking factory employees at an industrial park in Bavet’s Special Economic Zone for foreign enterprises on February 20.
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Cambodia: Investigate Government Cover-Up
(New York) –The Cambodian government should appoint an independent commission to investigate allegations that a ruling party municipal governor shot and wounded three women workers, Human Rights Watch said today. On December 14, 2012, the Svay Rieng provincial court closed the case against then-Bavet Municipality Governor Chhouk Bandit for allegedly firing into a crowd of striking factory employees at an industrial park in Bavet’s Special Economic Zone for foreign enterprises on February 20.
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Cambodia: Investigate Government Cover-Up
(New York) –The Cambodian government should appoint an independent commission to investigate allegations that a ruling party municipal governor shot and wounded three women workers, Human Rights Watch said today. On December 14, 2012, the Svay Rieng provincial court closed the case against then-Bavet Municipality Governor Chhouk Bandit for allegedly firing into a crowd of striking factory employees at an industrial park in Bavet’s Special Economic Zone for foreign enterprises on February 20.
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CCHR Congratulates Japanese Prime Minister Abe on His Election Victory and Calls for Japan to Speak out More on Human Rights and Democracy in Cambodia
The Cambodian Center for Human Rights (“CCHR”) congratulates Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his Liberal Democratic Party on their landslide victory in Japan’s general election on 16 December 2012, and wishes them all the best for this term. Mr Abe’s victory, as well as being a shining example to the rest of Asia of real democracy in action, also represents a fresh opportunity for Japan to put its recent economic, political and environmental woes behind it and to regain its stature and clout in the region.
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CCHR Congratulates Japanese Prime Minister Abe on His Election Victory and Calls for Japan to Speak out More on Human Rights and Democracy in Cambodia
The Cambodian Center for Human Rights (“CCHR”) congratulates Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his Liberal Democratic Party on their landslide victory in Japan’s general election on 16 December 2012, and wishes them all the best for this term. Mr Abe’s victory, as well as being a shining example to the rest of Asia of real democracy in action, also represents a fresh opportunity for Japan to put its recent economic, political and environmental woes behind it and to regain its stature and clout in the region.
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CCHR Congratulates Japanese Prime Minister Abe on His Election Victory and Calls for Japan to Speak out More on Human Rights and Democracy in Cambodia
The Cambodian Center for Human Rights (“CCHR”) congratulates Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his Liberal Democratic Party on their landslide victory in Japan’s general election on 16 December 2012, and wishes them all the best for this term. Mr Abe’s victory, as well as being a shining example to the rest of Asia of real democracy in action, also represents a fresh opportunity for Japan to put its recent economic, political and environmental woes behind it and to regain its stature and clout in the region.
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CCHR Congratulates Japanese Prime Minister Abe on His Election Victory and Calls for Japan to Speak out More on Human Rights and Democracy in Cambodia
The Cambodian Center for Human Rights (“CCHR”) congratulates Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his Liberal Democratic Party on their landslide victory in Japan’s general election on 16 December 2012, and wishes them all the best for this term. Mr Abe’s victory, as well as being a shining example to the rest of Asia of real democracy in action, also represents a fresh opportunity for Japan to put its recent economic, political and environmental woes behind it and to regain its stature and clout in the region.
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ADHOC Condemns Illegal Logging of Indigenous Community Land in Ratanakiri Province
Phnom Penh, December 19 2012 - The Cambodian Human Rights and Development Association (ADHOC) wishes to strongly condemn the deforestation and illegal logging of timber by two Vietnamese Companies, Dai Dongguan and Seventy Two, that have received Economic Land Concessions (ELCs) in Porknhai commune, O’yadaw district, Ratanakiri province. ADHOC is also concerned at the intimidation of the Lom village indigenous community, which has been threatened that if they do not change from collective land ownership to individual land ownership, they would have to pay approximately $700-$800 to the local authorities as a ‘fine.’ The rights of Cambodia’s indigenous communities must be respected and its forest preserved, and ADHOC calls on the Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) to intervene and solve this land conflict and the many others affecting Cambodia’s indigenous communities.
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