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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’s Correctional Center 1 (CC1), while Chhoeun Daravy and So Metta are detained in Phnom Penh’s C...

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 Association (KSILA) [2], respectively. On May 18, 2021, the Phnom Penh Municipal Court rejected the bail ...

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 of Phnom Penh’s lakes, which are being filled in for development. The planned one-person march ne...

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 was six months old,” Rotha’s wife Pat Raksmey told Al Jazeera. “It’s a smear campaign of th...

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 Minister Hun Sen to express their concern about a plan to fill in Phnom Penh’s largest lake, Boeung Ta...