Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR)

The joint Amicus Brief submitted to the Cambodian Court of Appeal in advance of Mam Sonando’s appeal hearing is the first of its kind to be submitted in Cambodia’s domestic courts.

The Bar Association of the Kingdom of Cambodia is moving to prohibit lawyers from giving radio and television interviews without its prior permission. Legal action would be taken against any lawyers whose public dissemination of information risks damaging the reputation of the legal profession.

It is important that young people are not stigmatised as gang members and ‘loiterers’; they should be respected as individuals exercising their right to peacefully assemble, said CCHR, after Cambodian police detained 18 youth who had gathered in a public place while wearing matching T-shirts.

Thirty IFEX members protested the sentencing of bloggers, citizen journalists and rights activists, jailed for up to 13 years in the biggest ever trial of pro-democracy activists in Vietnam.

Disappointment is expressed over the harsh sentences handed down to two community activists, who were convicted on spurious charges and appear to have been punished for speaking out against the authorities.

The Cambodian Center for Human Rights is concerned over the arrest of a Cambodian journalist who reported on illegal logging and the fact that another journalist who documented the arrest was later found unconscious.

The Cambodian Center for Human Rights is appalled at the dropping of all charges against a former governor, the prime suspect in the February 2012 shooting of three female garment factory workers during a protest.

Sign a petition to the Cambodian government calling for the immediate and unconditional release of journalist Mam Sonando, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence.