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The National Commission to Review and Request Sentence Reductions and Pardons on April 29 convened a meeting to evaluate which inmates were eligible for clemency.

A team from the Cambodian Human Rights Committee (CHRC) has shared details of the laws surrounding human rights – and the rights of detainees – to prison officials and law enforcement officers, and also examined the living conditions of prisoners at Correctional Centre I in Phnom Penh.

The General Department of Prisons (GDP) has made a request to the Ministry of Interior seeking to officially redesignate more than 3,000 prison officials from civil servants to that of the National Police in order to raise their pension to the higher rate received by the latter.

In the first three months of this year, the working group that monitors Minister of Interior Sar Kheng’s Facebook account solved 58 problems for people of the 269 requests made on his page. The working group tallied 269 requests or enquiries from the public.

The wife of 1 detained activist said the prison lacks clean water or even room to sleep.

Trafficking of surrogate mothers rises sharply despite travel restrictions imposed to curb spread of Covid

As of April 5, almost 100 per cent of the 38,000 inmates in prisons across the country had received booster shots against Covid-19, with some having already received a fourth shot, according to General Department of Prisons (GDP) spokesman Nouth Savna.

The Phnom Penh Municipal Administration denied claims that police and authorities had used violence against protesting employees of the NagaWorld integrated resort and engaged in sexual harassment of female demonstrators. In a press release on March 28, it dismissed the accusations recently spread on social media as baseless.

The retail prices of regular-grade petrol and diesel were respectively hiked by 10.4 per cent and 17.8 per cent on March 16, extending an uptrend that has held since January, and delivering a fresh blow to end consumers that jeopardises the livelihoods of low-income workers desperately trying to recover from the economic pains of Covid-19.

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