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CCHR in the News |
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| Amnesty Sought for Four |
| RFA, 2013-01-22 |
| Ou Virak, director of another rights group Cambodian Center for Human Rights, however maintained that both Moeung Sonn and Mam Sonando are “definitely political prisoners,” adding that the two men had been working to “serve the country” and “didn’t commit any crime.” |
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| Teens scared straight over T-shirts |
| PPP, 2013-01-21 |
| Suon Bunthoeun, project coordinator for the Cambodian Center for Human Rights, said that wearing matching T-shirts – flaming skull logo or no – did not violate the penal code. |
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| Cambodian Human Rights Group urges Laos to Locate Missing Activist |
| The Cambodia Herald, 2013-01-17 |
| The Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR) expressed its deep concern regarding the disappearance of prominent human rights defender Sombath Somphone in Laos, according to the CCHR President’s letter to Mr. Yaseng Lao, the Lao Ambassador to Cambodia. |
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| Cambodia failing to stop acid attacks |
| Thestar, 2013-01-12 |
| According to Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR) researcher Ramana Sorn, however, the true number of attacks is likely higher.
“Some people are too afraid to speak,” Sorn says. |
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| Motodops protest at CCHR |
| PPP, 2013-01-11 |
| About 100 motodops converged on the office of the Cambodian Center for Human Rights yesterday, demanding president Ou Virak retract comments accusing victims and witnesses of giving false testimony during last month’s widely condemned trial of Boeung Kak lake woman Yorm Bopha. |
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| Lawmakers Summon Court Chief |
| RFA, 2013-01-10 |
| Opposition politicians call on Cambodia's Supreme Court President to explain controversial cases to parliament. Cambodia’s opposition lawmakers on Thursday summoned the country’s top judge to answer queries in parliament over a series of court rulings which human rights groups say demonstrated the government’s misuse of the justice system to suppress dissent and undermine rights. |
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