Cambodia: three NGO workers detained are denied bail (Update)
Event- Country
- Cambodia
- Initial Date
- Oct 20, 2020
- Event Description
On 20 October 2020, the Court of Appeal in Phnom Penh denied the bail motion against the detention of three human rights defenders from Mother Nature Cambodia; Thun Ratha, Long Kunthea and Phoung Keorasmey. They were charged with “incitement to commit a felony or social unrest” on 6 September 2020. The charge is based on information they shared on social media about their plans to organise a one-woman march to the Prime Minister’s house to raise environmental concerns over the filling in of the Boeung Tamoke lake in Phnom Penh. The defenders are currently under pre-trial detention at Phnom Penh's Correctional Centres 1 and 2.
- Impact of Event
- 3
- Gender of HRD
- Man
- Woman
- Violation
- (Arbitrary) Arrest and Detention
- Judicial Harassment
- Rights Concerned
- Online
- Right to liberty and security
- HRD
- NGO staff
- WHRD
- Youth
- Perpetrator-State
- Judiciary
- Source
- Monitoring Status
- Active
- Event Location
Latitude: 11.58195128179629
Longitude: 104.91048154981392
- Event Location
- Summary for Publications
On 20 October 2020, three detained staff of the environmental NGO Mother Nature were denied bail by the Appeal Court of Phnom Penh, Cambodia