UN Envoy Asks Cambodia to Lift Demonstrations Ban

6 February 2014
Radio Free Asia
Government / Human rights / International laws and treaties / International relations / Law and judiciary / Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation / Social development / United Nations
Boeung Kak / Cambodia National Rescue Party / CCAWDU / CNRP / Coalition of Cambodian Workers’ Democratic Union / Hor Namhong / Kem Sokha / Maina Kiai / United Nations

A U.N. rights envoy suggested Thursday that Cambodia lift a ban on public gatherings in the capital imposed amid a violent crackdown on demonstrators a month ago. Maina Kiai, the U.N.’s global Special Rapporteur for freedom of peaceful assembly and association, made the suggestion to Foreign Minister Hor Namhong in Phnom Penh while on a three-day visit to Cambodia. … Kiai’s trip comes less than a month after police shots during a crackdown on striking garment workers left five dead in what rights groups have decried as the worst state violence against civilian in the country in years. Kiai’s trip, which also included a meeting with opposition CNRP deputy chief Kem Sokha on Thursday, is an unofficial academic visit made on the invitation of civil society groups, rather than an official reporting visit organized by the government. … Kiai met with the Coalition of Cambodian Workers’ Democratic Union earlier in the week and is expected to meet with land rights activists from Phnom Penh’s Boeung Kak Lake community on Friday, the Cambodia Daily reported. …

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