Protesters ask release of women who chained and sold their 13-years-old niece

About 200 people gathered in Phnom Penh’s Russey Keo district on Sunday demanding the release of two women who were arrested last week for allegedly chaining up their 13-year-old niece and selling her for sex.

Protesters called for Chea Tina and Chea Sros, both currently being held at Phnom Penh’s Prey Sar prison, to be allowed to continue caring for their children, with some blaming the teenage girl for the brutal treatment she was allegedly subjected to.

“She left home for three or four days without coming back sometimes. She was not a good girl, so her aunties punished her,” the women’s sister, Chea Sopheap, told local newspaper Koh Santepheap.

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