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'Multimedia Monk' is honored for activism

4 October 2012
The Phnom Penh Post
Civil society / Human rights / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Social development
activism / activist monk / Amnesty International / anti-eviction prostests / Buddhist monks / Human Rights / Human Rights Watch / land / Land evictions / land-rights activists / Luon Sovath / Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders / multimedia monk

Activist monk Luon Sovath has been named the recipient of this year’s Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders for his work promoting villagers’ land claims and publicising rights abuses. A familiar figure at protests in Cambodia, including the widely decried May trial of the Boeung Kak 13, ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012100459106/National-news/cambodian-activist-first-southeast-asian-to-receive-prestigious-rights-award.html

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