Cambodia: environmental rights defender threatened for monitoring illegal logging
Event- Country
- Cambodia
- Initial Date
- Jul 21, 2020
- Event Description
A member of the Prey Lang Community Network,a local activist group of volunteer forest rangers that has been risking their lives to peaceably protect the area from illegal logging and large-scale land-grabbing since 2007., is threatened by a known timber trader with political connections while taking photos of illegal timber being transported at night. The trader confiscated the forest activist’s phone and filed a complaint at the district militar y police station demanding compensation for having taken photos of him without permission.
- Impact of Event
- 1
- Gender of HRD
- Other (e.g. undefined, organisation, community)
- Violation
- Intimidation and Threats
- Rights Concerned
- Right to healthy and safe environment
- HRD
- Environmental rights defender
- Perpetrator-Non-State
- Agricultural business
- Source
- Monitoring Status
- Pending
- Event Location
Latitude: 13.220280150843472
Longitude: 105.60285259131633
- Event Location
- Summary for Publications
On 21 July 2020, an environmental rights defender member of the Prey Lang Community Network was threatened by a timber traded for taking pictures of illegal timber transporting at night, and had his camera seized in Prey Lang forest, Cambodia.