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Statement by YashGhai
We are forwarding the transcript of the statement of Professor Yash Ghai, the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for Human Rights in Cambodia presented to the 9th session of the Human Rights Council
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Born Samnang and Sok Sam Oeun, Innocent Prisoners - 1, 700 Days Behind Bars
Today marks the 1,700th day that Born Samnang and Sok Sam Oeun have spent in prison for a crime they did not commit. Despite overwhelming evidence of their innocence, the two men continue to serve 20-year prison sentences for the murder of trade union leader Chea Vichea. They remain in Phnom Penh’s PJ prison, where they have been since their arrests on January 28, 2004.
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Action Needed Over Persecuted Human Rights Defenders
LICADHO calls for Cambodian authorities to take concrete steps to redress the persecution of human rights defenders, including by bringing the killers of trade unionist Hy Vuthy to justice and ensuring that Khmer Kampuchea Krom activist monk Tim Sakhorn is able to return to Cambodia from Vietnam.
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Cambodia: Law Must be Clear About Compoundable and Non-Compoundable Offences
On July 30, 2008 the Supreme Court of Cambodia upheld a lower courts ruling that found Prince Norodom Ranariddh guilty of breach of trust and sentenced him to 18 months in prison. Ranariddh was the president of a political party named FUNCINPEC. FUNCINPEC was a partner of the Cambodian Peoples Party since 1993. In 2006 Mr. Nhiek Bun Chhay, the Secretary General of FUNCIPEC ousted Ranariddh from the party and later filed a criminal lawsuit against him for breach of trust. The allegation was that Ranariddh had sold party’s land in Phnom Penh and had used the sale proceeds, claimed to be US$3.6 millions, to buy land for the new, self-named party, Norodom Ranariddh Party, Ranariddh had formed.
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Public Statement on the Cambodian National Assembly Elections on 27 July 2008
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) welcomes reports that voting in the Election of Members of the 4th Mandate of the Cambodian National Assembly, on 27 July 2008, took place in an atmosphere that was for the most part peaceful and free of violence.
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Statutory Presumption of Bail Must be Effectively Enforced
Last August Cambodia adopted a code of criminal procedure. In a section on pre-trial detention this code succinctly stipulates the presumption in favour of bail, and allows pre-trial detention in special cases subject to the custodial sentence attached to the crime and specific reasons.
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Crackdown on Attempted Peaceful Protest by Workers and Teachers
The Association for Development and Human Rights in Cambodia (ADHOC) and the Cambodian League for Defense and Promotion of Human Rights (LICADHO) jointly condemn the police crackdown on an attempted peaceful gathering over the Preah Vihear temple dispute by factory workers and school teachers today.
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Civil Society Coalition Calls for an End of Political Violence During the Electoral Campaign Period
A coalition of a wide range of civil society organizations, namely the Cambodian Human Rights Action Committee (CHRAC, 21 NGO members), the Committee for Free and Fair Elections in Cambodia (COMFREL, 10 NGO members), and the Neutral and Impartial Committee for Free and Fair Elections in Cambodia (NICFEC, 7 NGO members), have great concern over the general political situation and the practice of democracy in the Kingdom of Cambodia, especially during the electoral campaign period of the 4th term of the National Assembly Elections, which will take place on July 27, 2008.
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