AFP
The number of people infected with the coronavirus in Cambodia reached nearly 70,000 on Tuesday with 825 new confirmed cases of the contagious respiratory virus and 21 deaths, according to the health ministry.
The Southeast Asian nation of 16.5 million people has recorded 68,796 total cases since the pandemic began with nearly 1,150 total deaths, the ministry reported.
The provinces of Banteay Meanchey, Prey Veng, Siem Reap, and Battambang each registered 60 to 100 new cases daily, it said.
So far, Cambodia has vaccinated more than 6 million of the 10 million people who are eligible to receive COVID-19 vaccines.
One inmate has died and other prisoners and guards have been infected from a virus outbreak in Banteay Meanchey Prison in the province of the same name, prompting a renewed call from NGOs for measures to prevent further infections and reduce crowding in cells.
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Voters line up for the national election at a polling station in Phnom Penh’s Sen Sok district in June, 2018. Heng Chivoan
‘Minimum conditions’ for elections outlined
Thu, 15 July 2021
A group of 64 NGOs and associations made recommendations in an open letter to the government which they declared were the “minimum conditions” for the coming 2022 commune council elections to be legitimate, based on what they say are the broadly recognised principles of all genuine, free and fair elections.
The recommendations included allowing all political parties to actively participate in political activities and stand for elections and revisions to the composition of the National Election Committee (NEC).
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RFA
A Spanish environmentalist who led a campaign against a controversial dam project on Tuesday accused Cambodia’s courts of violating national and international law because judicial authorities plan to hold a case against him in absentia while he is prevented by the government from re-entering the country to stand trial.
Alejandro Gonzalez-Davidson, the Khmer-speaking former director of the NGO Mother Nature Cambodia, was deported from the Southeast Asian nation in February 2015 following the government’s refusal to renew his visa.
Opposition groups and local NGOs said Gonzalez-Davidson was expelled for to prevent him from organizing further opposition to the planned Chhay Areng hydropower dam in Koh Kong province. The U.S. $400-million China-led project backed by a ruling Cambodian People’s Party lawmaker would have forced hundreds of ethnic minority families off of their ancestral land and destroyed the habitats of endangered animals, they said.
Cambodia: Denial of bail to Rong Chhun and Sar Kanika
09/06/2021
Arbitrary detention /
June 9, 2021
The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a partnership of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and FIDH, has received new information and requests your urgent intervention in the following situation in Cambodia.
New information:
Rong Chhun and
Sar Kanika amid a COVID-19 outbreak in many Cambodian prisons. Mr. Chhun, a prominent labour rights defender, is the President of the Cambodian Confederation of Unions (CCU), and a member of the Cambodian Watchdog Council (CWC) [1]. Ms. Kanika is a member of the youth group Khmer Thavrak [2] and an ex-member of the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP).