Cambodia: rights worker beaten by police while documenting land dispute
Event- Country
- Cambodia
- Initial Date
- Oct 11, 2014
- Final Date
- Oct 11, 2014
- Event Description
On the afternoon of October 11th 2014, police in Oddar Meanchey beat a staff member from human rights organization Equitable Cambodia after they refused to allow officers to search their car without a warrant and gain access to a camera. Police stopped the car as it was transporting villagers back to their community, following interviews with Equitable Cambodia staff at an office belonging to ADHOC. Following the illegal search and beating of the staff, police confiscated the car and deleted a number of photos from the camera. The staff from Equitable Cambodia are now in Oddar Meanchey Provincial Police Station negotiating with police but are not currently detained. The violence comes after Equitable Cambodia staff were detained last month during a visit to Bos village in Oddar Meanchey, to investigate a case where approximately 100 families were affected when their rice fields were destroyed to make way for sugarcane plantations.
- Impact of Event
- 1
- Violation
- Intimidation and Threats
- Violence (physical)
- Rights Concerned
- Right to property
- Source
- Monitoring Status
- Pending
- Event Location
Latitude: 14.171719500000002
Longitude: 103.6362715
- Event Location
- Summary for Publications
On the 11th October 2014, a human rights worker for organization Equitable Cambodia was beaten by police after refusing to allow officers to search their car without a warrant and gain access to a camera. Following the illegal search and beating of the staff member, police confiscated the car and deleted a number of photos from the camera. The violence comes after Equitable Cambodia staff were detained last month during a visit to Bos village in Oddar Meanchey, to investigate a case where approximately 100 families were affected when their rice fields were destroyed to make way for sugarcane plantations.