Lawyers Submit Bail Requests for Imprisoned Protesters
Ten lawyers representing 22 of the 23 striking workers, union officials and political activists imprisoned at a maximum-security prison in Kompong Cham province since their arrests at two protests in Phnom Penh earlier this month submitted bail requests for their clients Thursday, one of the lawyers said. The requests for the prisoners, detained in the notorious Correctional Center 3 (CC3), were submitted to the Phnom Penh Municipal Court, where the 23 have been charged with intentional violence and property destruction, said Ham Surith, a Community Legal Education Center lawyer. Vorn Pao, a prominent union leader, was not included in the requests as his application for bail was rejected last week. … Ten of the 23 were arrested by paratroopers who broke up the Yakjin factory protest of striking garment workers on January 2. The remaining 13 were arrested the next day at the Veng Sreng Street protest, during which military police shot dead five striking workers. Prison and court officials refused repeated requests from the lawyers to reveal where the 23 prisoners, most of whom were badly beaten by authorities before their arrests, were being detained until January 8, and have since only allowed limited access. …
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