Communities threatened by an eviction gathered in front of the Cambodian National Assembly to celebrate U.N. World Habitat Day and to submit a petition requesting Cambodia be an ‘Eviction Free Zone’. U.N. World Habitat Day is held on the first monday of October, but Mam Sonando’s verdict was due that day. And there are only […]
Besides Mam Sonando, the 71 year old Radio Beehive owner, sentenced to 20 years of prison for having masterminded a so-called secessionist movement, and 13 other co-defendants sentenced from 30 years to suspended sentences, the Cambodian judicial system is being condemned as well. Be it local Human Rights organisations like LICADHO, ADHOC, CCHR, international organisations […]
With ever more inventive props, the Boeung Kak Lake community today carried a locked jail around during their demonstration at the Ministry of Justice and the Royal Palace to request the liberation of their fellows Yorm Bopha and Tim Sakmony, imprisoned at Prey Sar for their land rights activism. This is a follow-up post on […]
Luon Sovath, the ‘multimedia monk’ and land rights activist, was awarded the Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders. Follows the Martin Ennals text about Loun Sovath’s nomination: ‘Venerable Luon Sovath, Cambodia. In March 2009, Luon Sovath, a Buddhist monk from Siem Reap, Cambodia witnessed his family and fellow villagers being forcibly evicted from their […]
A small group of about 30 members of the Boeung Kak Lake community was prevented by the police to leave their neighbourhood to go and ask someone in charge at the municipality building if any progess was made about the outlining of the 12,44 Ha for an on site development promised by Prime Minister Hun […]
Some 300 supporters of Mam Sonando, the 70 year old Beehive Radio owner and Journalist, demonstrated in front of road blocks set up at the roads leading to the Phnom Penh Municipal Court while waiting for the verdict in a trial about a so-called ‘secessionist’ movement. Mam Sonando was sentenced by the Phnom Penh Municipal […]
The Boeung Kak Lake and Borei Keila communities tried to put pressure on the donor countries which were having their annual meeting with the Cambodian Government. Basically they were saying: ‘Link the amount of money you are promising to improvements on the Human Rights situation’… In 2011 about 1/3 of the annual budget came from […]
Boeung Kak Lake and Borei Keila held a cursing ceremony in front of the Phnom Penh Municipal Court, requesting the release of Yorm Bopha and Tim Sakhmony, detained at Prey Sar prison. This is a follow-up post on the ‘Quest for Land‘ story which is available as an iApp on iTunes.