Rights Groups File Lawsuit Over Land Meeting Breakup
Two local human rights groups filed lawsuits yesterday at the Ratanakiri Provincial Court accusing commune and village officials of defamation and intimidation after they disrupted land-rights training session last month. On July 26, a group of armed officials stopped Adhoc and the Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR) from holding an education session with about 50 villagers at a private home in Lumphat district’s Batang commune. … Deputy court prosecutor Ros Saram confirmed that the complaints had been submitted but he declined to comment further, saying it was too early to say whether there had been any wrongdoing. …
