NGOs to petition King over judicial laws

15 July 2014
The Cambodia Daily
Civil society / Constitution and rights / Government / Judiciary and courts / Law and judiciary / Legal and judicial reform / Social development
Constitutional Council / CPP / Housing Rights Task Force / National Assembly / Norodom Sihamoni / Senate / Sia Phearum

A group of civil society organizations will petition King Norodom Sihamoni today, calling on the king to withhold his signature from three judicial laws that they say will entrench the ruling CPP’s control of the courts and jeopardize citizens’ constitutional freedoms. Despite concern raised by local and international NGOs, the judicial laws passed without change in the single-party National Assembly and the Senate over the past two months and were deemed constitutional by the CPP-stacked Constitutional Council two weeks ago. …

 Colin Meyn
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