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Muong Sopheak and Mr. Mean Prommony, member and Vice President of the Khmer Student Intelligent League Association (KSILA)[2], respectively. On May 18, 2021, the Phnom Penh Municipal Court rejected the bail application of the above-mentioned seven human rights defenders to ensure that they would attend their trial, which has not yet been scheduled. At the time of publication of this urgent appeal, Koet Saray, Hun Vannak, Tha Lavy, Mean Prommony, and Muong Sopheak remain detained in Phnom Penh...

Cambodia: Ongoing arbitrary detention of Khmer Thavrak and KSILA members 20/05/2021 Arbitrary detention / May 20, 2021 The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a partnership of the World Organisation Against Torture and FIDH, has received new information and requests your urgent intervention in the following situation in Cambodia. New information: Hun Vannak, Ms. Muong Sopheak and Mr. Mean Prommony, member and Vice President of the Khmer Student Intelligent League Associ...

Outrage as Cambodian court convicts activists for inciting ‘social chaos’ by planning one-person march by Gerald Flynn on 14 May 2021 On May 5, the Phnom Penh Municipal Court convicted and sentenced five activists from the environmental group Mother Nature Cambodia: Long Kunthea, Phuon Keoraksmey, Thun Ratha, Chea Kunthin and Alejandro Gonzalez-Davidson. The activists have been convicted of intending to cause “social chaos” by planning a protest of the government-sanctioned destruction...

Jailed, in hiding, expelled: Cambodia’s Mother Nature crackdown Phorn Bopha © Environmental campaigners are being jailed as the Cambodian government continues to crackd down on d... Environmental campaigners are being jailed as the Cambodian government continues to crackd down on dissent [File: Tang Chhin Sothy/AFP] Arrested last year with two of his fellow environmental activists, Thun Rotha has barely seen his baby who is now 14 months old. “He was arrested when our son...

Arrested last year with two of his fellow environmental activists, Thun Rotha has barely seen his baby who is now 14 months old. “He was arrested when our son was six months old,” Rotha’s wife Pat Raksmey told Al Jazeera. “It’s a smear campaign of the powerful. He has not incited anyone. He questions those who are in power.” Rotha is one of three members of the environmental NGO Mother Nature who were arrested in 2020 after they organised a march to the house of Cambodian Prime Mini...

The five, two of whom were convicted in absentia, received 18-20 months in prison and hefty fines.

6 May 2021, 10:00 UTC Responding to reports that the Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday convicted and sentenced five environmental activists, Emerlynne Gil, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director for Research said:  “This outrageous conviction is a blatant attempt to silence these young human rights defenders in retaliation for their peaceful work to protect Cambodia’s natural resources. This clearly violates the activists’ right to freedom of expression and constitutes a...

Cambodia jails environmental activists for incitement Human rights watchdog CIVICUS demands the immediate release of the Mother Nature Cambodia campaigners Updated: May 06, 2021 06:59 AM GMT Trending Environmental activist Phuon Keoreaksmey during a cycling campaign in 2020. (Photo: Mother Nature Cambodia) Three environmental activists have been jailed for 18-20 months and fined for incitement amid demands for their release and warnings their convictions highlighted a “rapid deterioration”...

Alejandro González-Davidson, and Khmer Thavrak member Chea Kunthin, for planning a peaceful demonstration to denounce the exploitation of Phnom Penh’s Bueng Ta-mouk lake[2]. On May 5, 2021, the Phnom Penh Municipal Court sentenced Long Kunthea and Phoun Keo Reaksmey to 18 months in prison and a fine of 4 million riel (approximately 825 Euros) on charges of “incitement to cause societal chaos” (Articles 494 and 495 of the Cambodian Criminal Code). Thun Ratha was sentenced to 20 months i...

Mother Nature activist Long Kunthea, who was imprisoned yesterday for her environmental activism. Credit: Facebook/Mother Nature Advertisement A Cambodian court has imprisoned three environmental activists belonging to the advocacy group Mother Nature, after finding them guilty of “incitement” for organizing a one-woman protest against the filling of lakes in the country’s capital Phnom Penh. On Wednesday, a judge at Phnom Penh Municipal Court sentenced activists Long Kunthea and Phuon Ke...