Clemency for inmates under review
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.
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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.
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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.