The Supreme Court on Friday upheld convictions against four human rights officials and an election body staffer — who previously worked at the same rights group — in a case related to a love scandal involving opposition leader Kem Sokha.
The Ratanakiri Provincial Court has dropped forest-clearing charges against four indigenous forestry activists after a crime was not found, according to a rights group supporting the activists.
Roofs, kitchens, shacks and other extensions built unapproved on houses in the wider Angkor Archaeological Park area will need to be removed, Apsara Authority has told residents, some of whom believe they only have two days left to finish the removals.
The press conference included human rights NGOs, a rare sight that both a gov’t spox and civil society representatives said was a good step.
The Appeal Court on Monday upheld the already-served sentences against five human rights officials who were convicted of bribing the alleged lover of an opposition leader.
Human rights officials who were convicted of bribing the alleged lover of an opposition leader brought their case to the Appeal Court on Thursday, calling for the woman, who filed the complaint against them, to testify.
A Siem Reap Police officer has been sent to pretrial detention for biting his girlfriend’s baby last week. An appeal hearing from the “Adhoc 5” case was delayed due to a possible Covid-19 exposure.
Major action is needed to address a crisis of forced labor, slavery and torture in Cambodia, says a collective of 35 civil society groups.
Despite making her jump through administrative hoops, a rights monitor from Adhoc says the Preah Sihanouk court is blocking her from attending hearings, hampering a critical function of the country’s rights workers — trial monitoring.
A former district police chief in Koh Kong province is under investigation for allegedly bulldozing 87 hectares of forest around the Dang Peng multiuse protected area.
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