Worker’s Trial Resumes…
The road in front of the Phnom Penh Municipal Court was cordoned off again during the resumption of the trial for 23 workers, union leaders and activists who were arrested on January 2nd and 3rd during a violent crackdown of striking workers. A brief and fairly useless scuffle between Municipal Security Guards and monks from the Independent Monk Network for Social Justice (IMNSJ) resulted in injuries on the authorities’ side. A loud and colourfull protest by some 400 demonstrators supporting the 23 followed.
