B Kak Woman Arrested

Prominent Boeung Kak villager and protester Yorm Bopha was yesterday jailed in Phnom Penh’s Prey Sar prison, after she and her husband – en route to check for their names on a voting register – were pounced on by police in plain clothes in what her husband claims was a set-up. Outside a building housing Srah Chork commune’s electoral roll, 29-year-old Bopha and her 56-year-old husband Lous Sakhorn were arrested at about 9am by 10 policemen, who shoved them into an unmarked car and sped away, according to witness Doung Kea. … Sakhorn said he and his wife had never received the warrant and a Srah Chork police officer had phoned them several days ago, asking them to check their names on the electoral roll. … Housing Rights Task Force communication official Long Kim Heang said the arrest and warrant were a new, illegal tactic to scare Boeung Kak women into silence. …

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