Dec 31, 6:03
Cambodian human rights leader Kem Sokha © holds hands with his wife before being arrested in Phnom Penh December 31,2005. Sokha, director of a U.S. funded human rights organization, was arrested at his office by Cambodian police for defamation charges. The arrest is the latest in a series of actions taken by the government against

[December 31, 2005]


Cambodian human rights center chief hit with defamation charge+

(PHNOM PENH, Dec. 31_(Kyodo) _ One of Cambodia's top human rights campaigners was detained Saturday for questioning on a defamation charge filed against him by the Phnom Penh municipal authority, a police official said.

Kem Sokha, director of the Cambodian Center for Human Rights, was confronted in his office in Phnom Penh in the early afternoon while a number of opposition parliamentarians and British Ambassador David Reader, chair of the European Union diplomatic missions to Cambodia, watched.

According to the police, the Phnom Penh municipal authority filed a defamation suit against Kem Sokha on Dec. 21, alleging his human rights center was responsible for erecting at least two banners criticizing the national government over the country's boundaries with Vietnam.

The banners were raised in the capital Dec. 10 at a gathering of several thousand people that his organization hosted to mark Human Rights Day.

The Cambodian government led by Prime Minister Hun Sen is exceedingly sensitive to any criticism alleging he has ceded any Cambodian territory to Vietnam.

http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2005/dec/1250436.htm

hun sen will do these to you if you get into his way. he has more power than our current king.

I dont understand, why dont they just shoot Hun Sen, its so easy. Why doesnt the remaing kr supporters from Pallin snipe is @$$?

Hun Sen hates free speech. It is a direct threat to his government. There are too many illegal activities the Hun Sen government are doing behind closed door. So when the people finds out about it and protest against it, Hun Sen would get paranoid and order an arrest against whomever protesting against him.

Hun Sen is a real madafu-ker! He does nothing good for Cambodia besides staying under Hanoi's @$$ and practicing communism in the kingdom. Poor khmer people!!!

What does Ha Noi having anything to do with Hun Sen? If Cambodians don't like him then they could vote him out of office. It's not like Vietnam is having soldiers in Cambodia to protect Hun Sen and his regime.

some of hun sen's body guards are vietnamese.

The Khmer Rouge Regime is still alive & well?

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