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| Rainsy sentenced to two years |
| Phnom Penh Post, 2011-04-26 |
| Ou Virak said it was unlikely that a political settlement would be brokered in the near future to allow the opposition leader to return to the country. |
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| Fear Among Journalists Hindering Freedom: Analysts |
| VOA, 2011-04-25 |
| Ou Virak, director of the Cambodian Center for Human Rights, said criminal defamation and disinformation laws continue to suppress the media.
“Our society is still a fearful society,” he said. “People remain in fear, and journalists in particular can be threatened and are working in fear. The fear makes it so journalists cannot properly fulfill their duties consistent with professionalism. This is a key topic for 2011.” |
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| Cambodian police crack down on rally in capital |
| Agence France-Presse, 2011-04-23 |
Ou Virak said the fact that the crackdown happened just one day after donors discussed the issue showed that the government was becoming increasingly "authoritarian".
"It's not just that they are allowing land-grabbing, they are also silencing any kind of protest," |
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| Government plans to tighten noose around civil society |
| Inter Press Service, 2011-04-23 |
"I think it’s smart for donors to take a very clear stance," Ou Virak, president of the Cambodian Centre for Human Rights told IPS.
Aid money represents roughly half of Cambodia’s national budget; last year, donors pledged a record 1.1 billion dollars in funding. But it’s unclear whether donors such as the U.S. would follow through should the government eventually pass its NGO law without major changes. |
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| Lake protest turns bloody |
| Phnom Penh Post, 2011-04-22 |
Ou Virak said yesterday’s violence was “a new low” in the long-running saga.
“This is a shocking and entirely unjustifiable response to a peaceful protest by the disenfranchised lake residents,” he said in a statement yesterday. “The actions of the authorities today illustrate that the rights to freedom of assembly and expression of ordinary Cambodians [are] secondary to the business operations of the wealthy and well-connected.” |
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| Cambodian police crack down on rally in capital |
| Bangkok Post, 2011-04-22 |
Ou Virak said the fact that the crackdown happened just one day after donors discussed the issue showed that the government was becoming increasingly "authoritarian".
"It's not just that they are allowing land-grabbing, they are also silencing any kind of protest," |
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| Police beatings, arrests as lake resident protest |
| Voice of America, 2011-04-21 |
Ou Virak, president of the Cambodian Center for Human Rights, called the beatings a “shocking and entirely unjustifiable response to a peaceful protest.”
“The arrests of children and beatings of elderly women represent a new low in what has already been a hard-fought land conflict,” |
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