Category: Legal

Covid-19 Vaccination Drive Should Focus on Access, Comprehensive Support(Bangkok) – Cambodian authorities have imposed Covid-19 vaccine mandates that threaten people’s basic human rights, Human Rights Watch said today. The government’s approach risks v…

A court in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh sentenced 10 activists to 20-month sentences Tuesday on charges of incitement for their role in protests demanding the release of a prominent union leader, RFA has learned.Seven members of the Khmer Thavrak y…

Cambodia’s parliament has passed an amendment to the country’s constitution barring anyone with dual citizenship from holding any top political office, in an apparent move by Prime Minister Hun Sen to prevent a key opposition leader from taking a futur…

Cambodia’s human rights situation has dramatically worsened since the last Council resolution on Cambodia in 2019. Human Rights Watch has condemned draconian laws adopted in the past two years under the guise of the Covid-19 pandemic that are among the…

Renaissance Minerals (Cambodia) Limited has refined 48 gold bars, equivalent to approximately 555 kg as of Sept. 27, after three months of operation in O’ Kvau area, Keo Seima district, Mondulkiri province.H.E. Eung Dipola, Director General of the Gene…

Prime Minister Hun Sen crashed a Zoom strategy session of Cambodia’s banned opposition party “to send a clear message to the rebels” that they are being watched – not to seek political reconciliation, state media quoted him as saying in a report on Thu…

A former Buddhist monk from Cambodia’s Khmer Krom ethnic minority group was jailed this week in Phnom Penh for allegedly violating measures aimed at stopping the spread of COVID-19 in the country, with one rights group calling the action taken against …

Cambodian authorities have arrested more than 30 villagers during a violent roundup of land protesters in Kandal province where they were protesting against an airport being built by a company owned by a tycoon with ties to the country’s autocratic lea…

The final round of a tribunal investigating whether China’s treatment of its ethnic Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims constitutes genocide ended in London Monday after four days of hearings and testimony provided by nearly 40 witnesses and experts, with…

BANGKOK – Methamphetamine from the super labs of lawless eastern Myanmar is surging as organized crime thrives in the instability caused by the February coup there, experts have told VOA, flooding neighboring countries with narcotics and carving out ne…