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Conditional Release of Human Rights Defenders Violates Fundamental Rights to Freedom of Expression and Assembly
This Briefing Note addresses the dangerous increasing practice of the Royal Government of Cambodia (the “RGC”) of forcing human rights defenders (“HRDs”), protesters and everyday citizens to sign written statements agreeing to not partake in future demonstrations or illegal activities, as a condition of their release or to avoid charges. This practice represents an unlawful restriction on HRDs’ and individuals rights to freedom of expression and assembly and dangerously restricts the environment in which HRDs operate.
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Press Conference On Challenges of Cambodian Migrants in Thailand, 2013, Especially in the case serious torture and abuse of female migrant workers by Thai Boss
In 2013, the Cambodian Human Rights and Development Association received complaints requesting intervention in at least 75 cases of abuse against migration workers in Thailand, subsequent to victims suffering torture, deprivation of food, forced detention, threats, physical assault, sexual abuse, withholding of pay, trafficking to other locations without consent, and loss of all contact due to company closure. In addition to these abuses, Cambodian migrant workers in 2013 have been found shot to death, dead in their workplace, or at their place of residence in Thailand.
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Reporters killed in Cambodia since 1994
Mr.THOU Char Mongkol / TOU Chom Mongkal / TOU Chhom Mongkol (June 10) — Thou Char Mongkal was editor-‐in-‐chief of the privately owned bi-‐weekly Antarakum (Intervention) newspaper.He was found unconscious with a head injury/fractured skull on a road in Phnom Penh. Mongkol was taken to hospital where he died the following day (June 11th). The circumstances of the death remain unclear.
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Murder of journalist reporting on illegal fishing in Kampong Chhnang an affront to Freedom of Expression in Cambodia
The Cambodian Center for Human Rights (“CCHR”) deplores the death over the weekend of journalist Suon Chan, of the Khmer language newspaper Meakea Kampuchea, in Cholkiri district, Kampong Chhnang province. His death is yet another affront to freedom of expression, and in particular to freedom of the press, in the Kingdom of Cambodia (“Cambodia”), where journalists are regularly targeted for their work and where a culture of impunity for these crimes reigns. According to the Phnom Penh Post (‘Journalist beaten to death in K Chhnang,’ 3 February 2014), local authorities believe he was killed by a group of local fishermen, allegedly because of his work reporting on illegal fishing in the area.
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Cambodia: Garment Factories Thwarting Unions
The Cambodian government should ensure that garment factories stop deploying union-busting strategies and respect workers’ rights. Global apparel brands need to make sure their suppliers allow workers to form independent unions without interference, and that union representatives can be in factories without threats and retaliation.
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CCIM demands justice for slain journalists
Just days after the United Nations offered a critical review of Cambodia’s human rights record during the country’s Universal Periodic Review, yet another Cambodian journalist was murdered for reporting the news. Suon Chan became the 12th journalist to be killed in Cambodia during the past two decades when he was beaten to death on Saturday in retaliation for his reporting on illegal fishing in Kampog Chhnang, which was published in the Meakea Kampuchea newspaper.
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CCHR Releases Updated Data on Land Disputes and Land Concessions in Cambodia
The Cambodian Center for Human Rights (“CCHR”) today – 30 January 2014 – releases updated data on land disputes and land concessions in the Kingdom of Cambodia (“Cambodia”). The details of the cases of land conflict in Cambodia as well as the number of land concessions granted in 2013 by the Royal Government of Cambodia (“RGC”) are now available on CCHR’s award-winning Cambodian Human Rights Portal at www.sithi.org.
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OPCC condemns attacks on journalists covering Cambodia protests
On Monday morning, at least three photographers covering the Beehive Radio protest outside the Ministry of Information were struck by military police deployed during the demonstration. In at least one case, a Cambodian photojournalist vocally identified himself as a journalist to the officer, and all three were wearing their press cards. All were hit with batons. The OPCC condemns the unnecessary and unacceptable violence by state security forces, semi-official district and municipal guards, as well as plain-clothes attackers.
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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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