US reports long list of human rights concerns in Cambodia
The U.S. State Department on Friday released a damning assessment of the conduct of Cambodia’s elections and also took note of the “arbitrary and possibly unlawful” killing of a bystander by government forces and other human rights concerns in a report on human rights around the globe. The 10,800-word country report on Cambodia, which covers the State Department’s assessment of the country’s rights situation between January and December of 2013, found that “in addition to a flawed electoral process, the three leading human rights problems were a politicized and ineffective judiciary, constraints on freedom of press and assembly, and abuse of prison detainees.” “The government prosecuted some officials who committed abuses, but impunity for corruption and most abuses persisted,” the report says. …
Lauren Crothers
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