Friday, September 3, 2010

Cambodian rights groups face worsening repression: activists

Thursday, September 02, 2010
AFP

PHNOM PENH — Human rights workers in Cambodia face "an increasingly hostile environment" as authorities use violence, intimidation and "trumped-up" criminal charges to silence them, activists warned Thursday.

Rights group Licadho said that as of mid-July around 60 activists were being held in Cambodian prisons on a range of charges.

"Cambodian human rights defenders have faced an increasingly hostile environment over the past two years, enduring physical violence, illegal arrests, trumped-up criminal charges," the group said in a statement.
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