One month and 3 Days of 13 BKL detained in Prey Sor Correction Center with 6m x 15m with 70 people? 1.3 square mater stayed with 4 prisoners. (24 May - 27 June 2012). Mam Sonando detained since 17 July 2012 without trial yet. Chan Soveth invite by PP court on 24 August 2012. Mrs. Yorm Bopha detained in Prey Sar on 4 September 2012 and she charged for 3 year on 27 December 2012.. Now she was detaining for 222 Days (26 Jan 2013)
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Activists Demonstrate Once Again for Release of Yorm Bopha
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Yorm Bopha was given a three-year sentence in December, in what many rights observers say was an attempt by the courts to curtail dissent over ongoing housing issues.
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Heng Reaksmey, VOA Khmer
22 April 2013
PHNOM PENH - Housing rights protesters resumed demonstrations in Phnom Penh Monday to demand the release of a jailed activist.
Around 100 supporters gathered in from of the headquarters of the ruling Cambodian People’s Party to demand the release of a jailed activist named Yorm Bopha, underscoring the persistence of a movement that the authorities have been unable to quell.
They were led by Tep Vanny, an activist who was awarded in Washington for her leadership earlier this month.
Tep Vanny was awarded for leading an ongoing movement against forced evictions and land grabs. She and other are demanding proper compensation following the evictions of thousands of families at the Boeung Kak lake development site in the capital.
“Our first priority is to find a solution to land grabs,” Tep Vanny said Monday. “My receiving the award was important to me, but we still need our demands met in land issues and for homes.”
Yorm Bopha was arrested last year and charged with assault, after participating in similar demonstrations. She was given a three-year sentence in December, in what many rights observers say was an attempt by the courts to curtail dissent over ongoing housing issues.
No officials from the CPP came out to meet demonstrators outside the headquarters on Monday. A police official said the party did not have the power to resolve the issue, which must be handled through the National Assembly, Senate and Ministry of Interior.
The demonstration eventually moved away from the CPP headquarters and back to the Boeung Kak neighborhood. No clashes with police were reported.
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