Prison, hidden, expelled: Repression of Cambodian Mother Nature Environmental News
Thun Rotha, who was arrested last year along with his two environmental activists, has barely seen a 14-month-old baby.
“Our son was arrested when he was six months old,” Roth’s wife Pat Raksmey told Al Jazeera.
“It’s the dirt campaign of the powerful. He hasn’t pushed anyone. He questions those in power. ”
Rotha is one of three members of the environmental NGO Mother Nature, who was arrested in 2020 after organizing a march on the home of Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen to express concern about the plan to fill and develop Lake Boeung Tamok in Phnom Penh. area.