Amnesty calls for release of detained protesters
Amnesty International yesterday called on authorities to immediately release the 30 women and children from the Borei Keila community being detained against their will at Phnom Penh’s Prey Speu Social Affairs Center. “Those people never should have been arrested in the first place,” said Amnesty’s Deputy Asia-Pacific Director Donna Guest in a statement. On Wednesday, villagers protesting their forced eviction from Borei Keila were pushed and dragged onto a bus outside City Hall and detained at the center…
