Gov’t backtracks on rally ban
After days of defiance from the opposition against a ban on public assembly, the government issued orders yesterday for opposition rallies across the country to be allowed to go ahead, officials said. Tep Nytha, secretary-general of the National Election Committee (NEC), said the body and the Interior Ministry had sent letters to provincial and municipal governors calling on them not to stand in the way of rallies or marches by the Cambodia National Rescue Party. “This letter, we decided on just now, and we have started to send it [to the provinces]. Based on this letter the governors will make it easy [for the CNRP to march],” Nytha told the Postyesterday. …
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