The timeline below offers a visual representation of some of the key human rights violations and restrictions which have occurred in the Kingdom of Cambodia from 2013-2023, and follows our previous timeline covering 1993-2012 which can still be accessed here. The incidents recorded on the timeline from 2013-2023 represent human rights violations by the Royal Government of Cambodia as well as third parties, cover a wide range of issues including extrajudicial killings, convictions of human rights defenders, land grabs, forced evictions, restrictions of the rights to peaceful assembly, association and expression, torture, arrests, arbitrary detention and legislative and institutional developments relevant to human rights. The information is gathered from the Khmer and English media, CCHR’s own Fundamental Freedoms Monitoring Project, and from the commentary and analysis of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) working on these issues. Each entry is accompanied by a short description and provides links to media articles reporting on the event or to the work of CSOs active in the field. It should not be forgotten that the cases included in the timeline are those that have garnered the attention of the media or CSOs, and are as such particularly emblematic or high-profile. The timeline is therefore only representative of a small fraction of the actual number of human rights violations occurring in Cambodia.
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Phnom Penh
Torture, arrests and illegal detentions
Four people who were apprehended while trying to distribute flowers (misspelt peace) to military personnel are alleged to have handed out leaflets encouraging a military coup, and are charged with incitement by Phnom Penh municipal court, despite a total lack of evidence.
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Koh Kong
Land rights and forced evictions
More than 100 families living in Koh Kong's Kiri Sakor and Botum Sakor districts are ordered to vacate their land in less that two months. The communities are to be relocated to land devoid of any public infrastructure and covered in forest, considered by many to be unlivable.
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Phnom Penh
Torture, arrests and illegal detentions
A Boeung Kak lake activist has a miscarriage after being kicked in the stomach by a police officer during a land rights protest in front of Phnom Penh City Hall.
PPP | Cambodia Herald | PPP | Cambodia Herald
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Phnom Penh
Restrictions on the freedoms of expression, assembly and association
Authorities use water cannons on peaceful protestors from Boeung Kak, Borei Keila, and airport communities calling for a resolution to their land disputes.
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Phnom Penh
Convictions of human rights defenders
Ten unionists from the Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers' Democratic Union (C.CAWDU) were given suspended six-month prison sentences. The sentences related to violence at the E Garment factory in Kandal province almost three years before.
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Phnom Penh
Torture, arrests and illegal detentions
Authorities detained two monks after they blessed striking garment workers at a Phnom Penh factory. The chief at the monks' pagoda spoke out against the monks, in line with the Buddhist hierarchy's approach of tightly controlling monks’ involvement in politics.