Some 50 residents from Boeung Kak Lake, avoiding the road block set up by the police in their area, went by tuk-tuk to the proximity of the European Union and the World Bank to deliver yet another petition. This is a follow-up post on the ‘Quest for Land‘ story which is available as an iApp […]
The Boeung Kak Lake community found the time, after yesterday’s commemoration, to organise a tour of the Embassies to deliver a petition requesting the release of Yorm Bopha and Borei Keila‘s Tim Sakhmony. To symbolise their right to a decent housing they wore nests with eggs on their head. But the police was there again […]
One year ago, excavators and bulldozers, protected by police forces, destroyed several houses from the Boeung Kak Lake community. Today the community commemorated the event with a religious ceremony and by burning puppets, representing corrupt officials, copiously stuffed with fake 100$ bills and spoonfulls of sand. This is a follow-up post on the ‘Quest for […]
Mam Sonando’s supporters are demonstrating for the 4th day in a row near the Phnom Penh Municipal Court where he and 8 more defendants are being tried for a ‘secessionist movement’. Here, here and here are the photographs from the previous days… Mam Sonando’s Beehive Radio reported about a complaint to the International Criminal Court […]
The ‘Secessionist Trial’ (here and here) involving Mam Sonando, Radio Beehive Director and Journalist, and 8 other defendants, turns out to become the longest trial in Cambodia since 1992. This is the 3rd day that Mam Sonando’s supporters stage a demonstration at the end of the Municipal Court’s sealed-off road. Updated at 18:44
Day 2 of the ‘Secessionist Trial‘ at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court, involving Mam Sonando, a very popular journalist and director of the independent Beehive Radio. Mr. Mam is accused of instigating a secessionist movement in Kratie province, where a 14-year old girl was fatally shot by the police during a land dispute. The verdict […]
In yet another blow to the freedom of expression in Cambodia, Mam Sonando, 70 years, Journalist and Director of Beehive Radio, a very popular and independent radio station, was in front of his judges today at the Municipal Court of Phnom Penh. He was arrested on July 15th and accused of supporting or instigating a […]
The whole morning, residents from the Boeung Kak Lake community were prevented by police forces blocking every exit of the neighbourhood, to demonstrate in front of the Ministry of Justice to request the release of Yorm Bopha and Tim Sakmony. They were trapped like mice in a cage. This is a follow-up post on the […]