Mixed security forces violently broke up a protest outside the Chinese Embassy in Phnom Penh to mark the signing of the Paris Peace Agreement, with two former Cambodia National Rescue Party officials being detained to prevent their attendance.
https://bit.ly/2TmTIMY; https://bit.ly/31F2TwP;
The National Committee for Disaster Management on Oct. 23 reported that the death toll due to the floods has risen to 39 people in the country, with Banteay Meanchey Province registering the highest number of deaths. A jailed Mother Nature environmentalist and Khmer Thavrak activist appeared at the Appeal Court on Tuesday, where a judge denied requests to drop their cases or grant bail, while three female activists from the groups were unable to attend due to flooding in their prison. More than 1,400 female and juvenile prisoners have been evacuated from Prey Sar Prison’s Correctional Center 2 and squeezed into Phnom Penh’s other overcrowded prisons amid flooding over the past two weeks.
https://bit.ly/3oblIRP; https://bit.ly/37spd0k; https://bit.ly/2Hkfcrt;
The Ministry of Justice announced it has cleared a backlog of nearly 30,000 criminal court cases within 150 days across five provinces.https://bit.ly/2Hm3rkw;
