20/12/2010
AFP
A World Food Programme employee in Cambodia has been jailed for six months for printing and distributing anti-government material in a sentence criticised Monday by rights groups.
A World Food Programme employee in Cambodia has been jailed for six months for printing and distributing anti-government material in a sentence criticised Monday by rights groups.
A Phnom Penh court on Sunday sentenced Seng Kunnaka, a Cambodian who reportedly works in a WFP warehouse, to six months in prison and a fine of one million riel (250 dollars) -- just two days after his arrest for incitement.
"It's shocking that we now see even a warehouse employee at a UN agency with a print-out of materials from a website can incur the wrath of this increasingly authoritarian Cambodian government," said Phil Robertson, deputy Asia director at Human Rights Watch (HRW).
"This rushed trial and groundless conviction is further proof of the growing crackdown on freedom of expression by the Cambodian government", local rights group Licadho said in a statement.
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