The longan farmer was arrested earlier this week and the Battambang court unusually fast-tracked the conviction.
After more than two decades of activism that pushed for gender inclusivity and women’s empowerment, Ros Sopheap head of Gender and Development for Cambodia (GADC) will retire later this year.
The Cambodian National Police and U.S. Embassy in Phnom Penh announced in July the arrest of Yan Yoeun, who was sentenced in absentia to 17 years for the murder of 55-year-old Katherine Ann Grgich at Preah Sihanouk province’s Koh Rong island.
The report highlights debt-based coercion among 10,000 Cambodians, including nearly 4,000 children, working in brick kilns, with similar indebtedness leading to migration and exploitative work conditions overseas.
Vitit Muntarbhorn on Friday said he discussed a broad array of issues during his meetings, including prison overcrowding, the socio-economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, and harmonizing the country’s laws with international human rights standards.
In the latest arrests, Mother Nature's activists Sun Ratha, 26; Ly Chandaravuth, 22; and Yim Leanghy, 32, were detained on June 16 while documenting suspected pollution runoff into the Tonle Sap river in Phnom Penh.
Hong Kong’s last pro-democracy newspaper closed its doors just before midnight Wednesday, ending 26 years of journalism.
The newspaper’s apparent imminent closure comes just days after authorities froze $2.3 million of its assets last week, shortly after more than 500 police officers raided Apple Daily’s offices and arrested its chief editor, Ryan Law, and four other executives with the newspaper and Next Digital.
Three of four Mother Nature environmental activists arrested on Wednesday, had arrest warrants issued for them on the alleged charge of “plotting,” local authorities said, a charge used recently against former opposition officials.
The U.S. is pulling its funding for the Greening Prey Lang project, which works to protect the sanctuary from deforestation, and redirecting money for the Cambodian government to civil society groups and communities working to protect the forest.
The raid and arrests were conducted under the nearly 1-year-old national security law imposed on the semi-autonomous city by Beijing last year. Police said five executives of a company were arrested on suspicion of collusion with a foreign country or with external elements to endanger national secur
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