Lawyers Prevented From Seeing Protest Detainees at CC3

10 January 2014
The Cambodia Daily
Civil society / Crime and law enforcement / Government / Human rights / Judiciary and courts / Law and judiciary / Ministries and other national bodies / Ministry of Interior / Prisons / Social development
CC3 / CLEC / Community Legal Education Center / Correctional Center 3 / Kuy Bunsorn / LICADHO

Lawyers and human rights workers were prevented from entering Kompong Cham province’s Correctional Center 3 (CC3) prison on Thursday when they attempted to meet with some of the 23 protesters, union leaders and garment workers detained last week after protests were lethally suppressed by government forces. Security at the notorious and remote CC3 prison, which is located near the Vietnamese border, has also been ramped up in recent days, bolstered by the deployment of about 50 soldiers to the facility, lawyers and staff from rights group Adhoc said. … Some lawyers and staff of rights group Licadho and the Community Legal Education Center (CLEC) were permitted to enter the jail, but were unable to meet with all of the detainees. …

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