Foreign activists detained
Police arrested five activists from labour-rights group Clean Clothes Campaign yesterday outside the E Garment factory in Kandal province. Neuv Sakhan, deputy director of the Kandal provincial immigration police, told the Post four women and one man, from Norway, Belgium, England and Austria, had been taken into custody after they used a microphone to address workers on strike. … The CCC, which has been vocal on wages in Cambodia and issues involving the Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers’ Democratic Union (C.CAWDU), has been part of wage and freedom-of-association talks with labour-rights groups and unions in Phnom Penh this week. Since E Garment workers began striking in late January over the dismissal of C.CAWDU leaders, seven members of the union have claimed they were beaten by factory-hired thugs. Others have accused military police of injuring them. …
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013030661780/National/foreign-activists-detained.html
