Cambodia: five community-based defenders threatened with arrest

Event
Country
  • Cambodia
Initial Date
Mar 13, 2020
Event Description

A community representative and four CCFC staff are prevented from conducting a training on human rights and farming to a group of 30 villagers in Prey Veng province’s Ba Phnom district. The staff, who were working to set up a community saving group, were threatened with arrest by the deputy commune police chief if they continued with the training.

Impact of Event
5
Gender of HRD
  • Other (e.g. undefined, organisation, community)
Violation
  • Intimidation and Threats
Rights Concerned
  • Offline
  • Right to healthy and safe environment
HRD
  • Community-based HRD
Perpetrator-State
  • Police
Source

LICADHO - The Fight for Freedom

Monitoring Status
Pending
Event Location

Latitude: 11.486630923954207

Longitude: 105.33486853069964

Event Location
Summary for Publications

On 13 March 2020, five community-based defenders were threatened with arrest by the police ahead of conducting a human rights training to a grup of 30 villagers in Prey Veng Province, Cambodia.