Civil Society (26th – 30th, July, 2021)
Around 20 families are refusing to accept a deal from Apsara Authority to
move to smaller plots of land in Siem Reap province’s Banteay Srei district,
with the Angkor park management threatening to sue them in two weeks.
Four youth activists with the Khmer Thavrak and Khmer Student Intelligent
League who were arrested last year and charged with incitement for
protesting a unionist’s arrest maintained their innocence at a court hearing
in Phnom Penh Tuesday as part of a sprawling case rights activists have
called politically motivated.
