UN envoy hits out at Freedom Park cutoff
The United Nations special rapporteur on freedom of assembly has called the Cambodian authorities’ continuous blockade of Freedom Park, the enforcement of which saw security guards attack journalists and supporters of opposition lawmaker-elect Mu Sochua on Monday, “deeply disturbing”. “The authorities have no legal basis for using violence in response to a peaceful assembly. They also have no basis for banning peaceful assemblies,” Maina Kiai, the Kenyan lawyer who monitors the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association worldwide as a special envoy of the UN, said in an email on Wednesday. …
Kevin Ponniah
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