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| Hun Sen Walks Back Criticism |
| RFA, 2012-11-26 |
| The Cambodian Center for Human Rights said the prime minister’s warning was aimed at eroding support for the opposition ahead of next year’s general election. |
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| Human Rights Topped US President’s Cambodian Talks, Officials Say |
| VOA, 2012-11-22 |
| Ou Virak, head of the Cambodian Center for Human Rights, said that in meetings with the US president’s aids, rights workers outlined their ongoing concerns for jailed rights and housing activists, court corruption and a biased National Election Committee. They also discussed the Beehive Radio case, he said. |
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| Local Groups Disappointed, as Regional Summits Continue |
| VOA Khmer, 2012-11-20 |
| “They say every citizen has rights, but also obligations to fulfill,” said Ou Virak, head of the Cambodian Center for Human Rights. “This obligation has become a condition imposed from the state that you have rights, for instance to hold a demonstration, but you should not use it to affect social order; or the obligation could be to support and safeguard the state particularly related to social order. Therefore, if we go out to a hold a demonstration in the street, we are totally wrong.” |
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| Obama Presses Cambodia PM on Human Rights |
| VOA Khmer, 2012-11-19 |
| In another development, Cambodian rights groups voiced disappointment about the adoption at the summit of an ASEAN Declaration of Human Rights, saying the declaration does not go far enough to ensure rights for all people. The head of the Cambodian Center for Human Rights, Ou Virak said that, for example, the declaration gives people the right to demonstrate, but not if the demonstrations affect a country\'s social order. |
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| Courts making an effort, but pre-trial detention ‘excessive’ |
| PPP, 2012-11-16 |
| Cambodian courts seem to be “making efforts” to ensure defendants’ rights to a fair trial are not compromised, but serious shortcomings remain, a report released yesterday on the well-being of fair-trial rights in the Kingdom by the Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR) says. |
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| Renewed US Interest in Region Puts Cambodia in Tough Spot, Analysts Say |
| VOA Khmer, 2012-11-16 |
| In upcoming summits next week, between Asian, Asean and other world leaders, Cambodia is likely to shoulder more, including for the arrest and 20-year jail sentence of Mam Sonando, the owner of Beehive Radio, an independent station that broadcasts the Voice of America and other international programming. There will likely be pressure to find a way for opposition leader Sam Rainsy, who has been in exile since 2009, to return for elections next year, Ou Virak said. |
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