CNRP thumbprints confiscated in Poipet

Opposition officials in Poipet have requested the provincial government intervene after a village chief on Monday confiscated a book of Cambodia National Rescue Party supporters’ thumbprints. Mean Sarith, chief of the CNRP working group in the border town, said Seng Long, the Cambodian People’s Party village chief in Kilometre 4, Phsar Kandal commune, had incited villagers on Monday to use violence against opposition members, which he described as “a violation of people’s freedom of expression”. … The authorities have been accused by the CNRP of a concerted campaign to obstruct the collection of signatures for a petition calling on foreign governments to reject the results of July’s national elections. …

Chhay Channyda
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