This memorandum provides an overview of Human Rights Watch’s main concerns with respect to the human rights situation in Cambodia, submitted to the United Nations Human Rights Committee in advance of its third periodic review of Cambodia at the Committee’s 134th session (February 28 to March 25, 2022). We hope it will inform the Human Rights Committee’s preparation for its upcoming review of the Cambodia’s compliance with its obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (hereinafter “the Covenant”).
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Supporters pay their last respect to Kem Ley at Wat Chas pagoda in Phnom Penh in 2016. Hong Menea
Five years on, Kem Ley still at heart of debate
Sun, 11 July 2021
The murder of social and political analyst Kem Ley remains a subject of debate as civil society organisations (CSOs) observed his death on July 10 and expressed scepticism of the handling of the case.
Ley was gunned down on the morning of July 10, 2016, while he was sitting in the StarMart at a Caltex gas station on the corner of Monivong Blvd and Mao Tse Tung Blvd in the capital’s Chamkarmon district.
Daily Times
July 11, 2021
As the family of slain Cambodian activist Kem Ley rebuild their lives in Australia, his youngest son, born just months after the assassination, acts as a human timepiece measuring the years since the five brothers lost their father.
Kem Ley, a popular analyst and critic who dabbled in grassroots politics, was shot at point-blank range at a gas station cafe in Phnom Penh in 2016.
An unemployed former soldier confessed to the killing and claimed the motive was an unpaid debt, in a trial critics say was a political cover-up.
On the eve of the fifth anniversary of his death Saturday, his widow Bou Rachna visited a Melbourne temple to pray.
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