By Jared Ferrie
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Rights groups are accusing Cambodian authorities of arresting drug addicts and forcing them to take part in trials of experimental detox drugs, claims denied by an official of a government anti-addiction agency.
Police rounded up a group of addicts on Friday and Saturday and brought them to Phnom Penh's Orkas Knhom, or "My Chance" treatment facility, where they were pressured to sign up for a medical trial, according to local human rights group Licadho.
"Licadho has great concern about whether people have understood what they have consented to, or what they were coerced into," its director, Naly Pilorge, told Reuters.
Cambodia's National Authority for Combating Drugs (NACD) is overseeing a trial involving at least 17 addicts given a drug substitute called Bong Sen produced by a Vietnamese company, Ben Tre Fataco General Import-Export and Trading Services
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