Usual suspects taken in for ‘Black Monday’

The weekly routine of “Black Monday” arrests continued yesterday with four activists detained for eight hours for protesting “without permission” against the imprisonment of four human rights workers and an election official on widely criticised charges.

Chray Nim, from land rights group SOS, said she was arrested at about 10:30am with Ngov Nary and Yim Srim, of the Borei Keila community, and former Boeung Kak resident Im Srey Touch by district police while the group was walking to SOS’s offices in Phnom Penh’s Por Sen Chey district.

Nim said the authorities told the activists, who were dressed in black and carrying a banner, they were being arrested for protesting without permission and affecting “public order”.

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