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Peaceful protest turned away from Freedom Park
Some 50 Daun Penh district security guards and about as many riot police prevented 100 anti-eviction protesters from gathering at Phnom Penh’s Freedom Park on Tuesday after the city deemed the gathering illegal. The protesters were from a number of eviction-hit communities, including the Boeng Kak ...
Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/peaceful-protest-turned-away-from-freedom-park-76437/
CNRP to screen banned film on slain union leader Chea Vichea
The opposition CNRP plans to screen the banned documentary film “Who Killed Chea Vichea?” this week to mark the 11th anniversary of the Free Trade Union (FTU) leader’s assassination in front of a newspaper stall in Phnom Penh on January 22, 2004. CNRP public affairs director ...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cnrp-to-screen-banned-film-on-slain-union-leader-chea-vichea-76452/
City Hall turns away anti-eviction protesters
The Phnom Penh municipal government on Monday rejected a request from protesters to stage a one-month demonstration in the city’s Freedom Park for the release of 10 jailed activists and refused to receive their latest petition demanding a solution to their long-running land disputes. About 100 ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/city-hall-turns-away-anti-eviction-protesters-76409/