Charged Rights Worker Returns to Cambodia; Hearing Pending
Human Rights investigator Chan Soveth has returned to Cambodia more than two-and-a-half months after leaving in the face of a criminal charge that is thought to be linked to an alleged insurrection that took place in Kratie province in May. On August 14, the court charge Mr. Soveth, deputy head monitoring for human rights group Adhoc, with “providing assistance to a perpetrator” and summoned him for questioning without providing and details of the allegations. …
