CNRP activist detained over political VCDs

6 May 2014
The Cambodia Daily
Civil society / Constitution and rights / Crime and law enforcement / Elections / Government / Human rights / Law and judiciary / Social development
Cambodia National Rescue Party / Chraing Chamreh I commune / CNRP

Police on Sunday detained a CNRP activist and confiscated 347 political video-CDs that he was transporting to the party’s headquarters in Phnom Penh, police and opposition party officials said Monday. … The VCDs showed violent police and military repressions of land and labor activists and last year’s return of exiled CNRP president Sam Rainsy, among other promotional videos for the opposition party, according to Khun Samnang, the CNRP’s secretary for Russei Keo district. “Police accused him of disturbing public order,” Mr. Samnang said. … On April 17, at the CNRP’s memorial ceremony marking the 39th anniversary of the Khmer Rouge’s overthrew of Phnom Penh, Dangkao deputy district governor Prach Seiha was set upon by a group of CNRP supporters after he intercepted a woman selling pro-CNRP VCDs. …

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