Gallup finds: 'In no other country in the world is there greater inequality between the rich and poor in their ability to afford food'
Hun Manet assures Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi that Cambodia’s new government will maintain 'unchanged stance' on Bejing’s one-China policy and a 'non-interference policy' toward China
Coming in the broader context of a crackdown on independent institutions — from the media to apolitical nonprofits and advocacy groups — the legal saga likely had its desired impact, the ABA report concludes.
The amendment would require Secretary of State Antony Blinken to put Cambodian officials on a visa blacklist if there is “credible information” that they “have been involved in the unlawful detention of United States citizen Theary Seng.”
The international community has criticized past elections as well, such as the 2018 results when the CPP won all 125 seats. Yet foreign governments still lined up outside parliament when the new government was sworn in.
Individuals found in violation of the Cambodia Democracy and Human Rights Act would be barred from conducting any financial transactions in the U.S. and would have their visas blocked or revoked.
Should the CPP once again face a serious threat to its power, as it did a decade ago, activists worry Cambodia may be prepared to impose more Beijing-like control over the internet.
For the past 15 years, a unique experiment in international justice played out in a repurposed Army headquarters on the outskirts of Phnom Penh. Hundreds of lawyers, translators, staffers and service workers mad
Colleagues pay tribute to fearless American reporter who interviewed Pol Pot
Thayer was a sharp writer, but his sources were what truly set him apart in the post-war media milieu in Phnom Penh, thanks in part to relationships forged through months spent with anti-communist resistance forces along the Thai border earlier in the 1990s.
The ensuing trial and conviction of Rong Chhun, along with two younger activists, highlighted how Cambodia’s government and judiciary have warped criminal incitement charges to suppress dissent amid a crackdown on the ruling party’s critics and political opponents.
U.S. President Joe Biden aired a litany of concerns during his meeting with Prime Minister Hun Sen on Saturday.
In a statement Monday, her lawyers called for her to be transferred to the main prison in Phnom Penh, and asked Biden to use his planned visit to Cambodia on November 12-13 to push for her release.
“From the outset, the authorities repeatedly violated Ms. Seng’s fair trial rights,” the report said, noting that she was named as part of a long list of defendants accused of incitement, without any specific explanation of what she had done.
However, her case represents a unique dilemma for Hun Sen, both because of her U.S. citizenship and her relatively high international profile after two decades running rights groups in the country.
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