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PHNOM PENH: A man accused of faking a story about inappropriate behaviour by a senior traffic police officer was charged with malicious denunciation and forgery and placed in pre-trial detention by the Phnom Penh Municipal court this week. If found guilty, he is facing up to three years in prison.
The IUF and the ITUC strongly condemn the guilty verdicts and prison sentences for 9 IUF affiliate LRSU leaders including President Chhim Sithar who received the maximum sentence of 2 years in prison. We call on NagaCorp to use its considerable influence to persuade the Government of Cambodia to change course immediately, to release Sister Sithar and to drop all charges against her and the other LRSU leaders. We further call on NagaCorp to reinstate the terminated workers and members of LRSU and to negotiate in good faith with the union.
Group of youth activists also announces plans to hold hunger strike this week in solidarity with Theary Seng
Imprisoned Cambodian American human rights activist Theary Seng is well into a weeklong hunger strike she started on Monday to coincide with the ASEAN Summit in Phnom Penh, which President Joe Biden is expected to attend later this week. Authorities jailed Theary Seng on June 14 following a mass trial in Phnom Penh of opposition…
In a statement Monday, her lawyers called for her to be transferred to the main prison in Phnom Penh, and asked Biden to use his planned visit to Cambodia on November 12-13 to push for her release.