The Boeung Kak Lake community staged a demonstration to request the release of Yorm Bopha, land rights activist jailed to 2 years imprisonment for allegedly having beaten up two moto taxi drivers and Amnesty International Prisoner of Conscience, in front of the Royal Palace in Phnom Penh (Cambodia) on the occasion of the Queen Mother’s [...]
Boeung Kak Lake community members staged a cursing ceremony in Phnom Penh (Cambodia) this morning. They planned to drag puppets representing corrupt officials to the Council of Ministers but were prevented from doing so by units of riot police which blocked the acces roads. The puppets were then dragged onto the sand which fills the [...]
Yorm Bopha, Land Rights Activist and Amnesty International Prisoner of Conscience was found guilty at her Appeals Trial in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, this afternoon. Her sentence was reduced to 2 years instead of 3 for allegedly having beaten up moto-dup drivers (with the help of her brothers who are on the run). Most of the [...]
The never-shown-before-in-Cambodia exhibition ‘Quest for Land’ will remain on the walls of Meta House (Sothearos Blvd, Phnom Penh) until June 12th at 8:00AM. So this W.E. is your last opportunity. The exhibition is a short extract from the ‘Quest for Land‘ application for the iPad which contains over 700 photographs about land issues in Cambodia [...]
The first day of the appeals trial of Yorm Bopha, land rights activist and Amnesty International Prisoner of Conscience, took place today. The Boeung Kak Lake community was as vocal as ever to support her during the proceedings, largely overpowering the tuk tuk drivers who were counter-demonstrating (and paid 30,000 Riel or 7.5US$ to participate). [...]
About 200-250 younger Cambodians staged a demonstration in front of the National Assembly (was anyone working in there today?) on this ‘World Environment Day’. I am afraid that it will take a lot more from many more people to curb the current trend of destruction of natural resources in the ‘Kingdom of Wonder’. One of [...]
The 24-hour hunger strike by 4 representatives of Boeung Kak Lake, entangled in a never ending land issue and protesting for the release of Yorm Bopha, land rights activist and Amnesty International Prisoner of Conscience, ended this morning with 2 remaining protesters. In time to gather forces for the upcoming Appeal’s Court trial tomorrow… See [...]
In a country where people eat 5 times a day (when they have the money to do so) it is not a small achievement to decide to go on hunger strike… Boeung Kak Lake representatives Tep Vanny, Bov Sopheak, Kung Chhantha and Bo Chorvy are doing just that: a 24h hunger strike in front of [...]
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