Sweep targets still in lockup

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Alice Cuddy and Sen David

More than 100 men, women and children rounded up from Phnom Penh’s streets last week remained in detention yesterday at the notorious Prey Speu Social Affairs Centre, with orders from City Hall to keep them there indefinitely.

The detainees – who authorities say are either homeless, sex workers or drug addicts – were forced into vans by mixed security forces over the course of a multi-day sweep and driven to the de facto prison.

When Post reporters visited the remote facility yesterday afternoon, dozens of people could be seen through its external fence cooking rice, lying on the grass and walking in circles.

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