Group’s prison visit curtailed

In a move seemingly incongruent with the government’s plans to offer clemency to a number of female inmates on International Women’s Day on Sunday, a local rights group announced yesterday that new restrictions introduced by authorities have forced them to cancel prison activities marking the occasion. Licadho said, “with deep regret”, that its annual prison activities – which include speeches and dances, and providing care packages to female inmates, guards and children living in prison with their mothers – had been cancelled. …

Chhay Channyda
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