Freedom Park off-limits: city

13 March 2014
The Phnom Penh Post
Civil society / Constitution and rights / Government / Human rights / Law and judiciary / Social development
Cambodian Confederation of Unions / Cambodian Independent Teachers Association / CITA / Freedom Park / Hun Sen / Pa Socheatvong / Pich Saroeun / Rong Chhun

Freedom Park will remain off limits indefinitely for protesters, authorities said yesterday, despite Prime Minister Hun Sen suggesting last month that a ban on public assembly was being lifted. Pich Saroeun, chief of Russey Keo district’s Chroy Changva commune, said Phnom Penh Governor Pa Socheatvong had announced during a road inauguration in his commune that he was placing a “temporary” ban on gatherings at the park. The governor, Saroeun added, had given no firm indication of when that ban would be lifted, other than to say it would not be before investigations into the deadly violence of early January and other clashes were finished. …

 Mom Kunthear
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