A cop shooting at land-grabbing protesters in Oudong (RFA Video)Heng Reaksmey, VOA Khmer
Phnom Penh Thursday, 02 September 2010
“I do not think the violence is calming down,” he said. “But I think that arrests are increasing.”The Cambodian government is facing more accusations it has cracked down on freedoms of expression and the media in the past several years.
In a new report by the Paris-based Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, researchers found “trade union leaders, land rights activists and journalists have faced among the worst human rights violations [and are] facing new legal restrictions and fierce retaliation for documenting and denouncing abuses.”
Dozens of land rights activists were detained on charges “designed to remove them from the role as community leaders,” the research group said in a statement.
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