Cambodian Official Claims Spanish Activist Is A Witch, Internet Baffled

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Erin Hale ,

When Spanish activist and researcher Marga Bujosa Segado was deported from Cambodia on August 16, it was a terrible blow for civil society. She was arrested for attending a protest (on behalf of two other activists), and was promptly carted off to jail, a move many say violated her universal rights of free speech and assembly.

 

Getting arrested in Cambodia is about as unpleasant as it sounds, but unlike other Westerners, The Cambodia Daily recently learned that Bujosa Segado got the full treatment: a beating by police officers, who kicked her in the torso and stomach. While arrested Westerners are often spared this indignity (unlike Cambodians) they seem to have made an exception in Bujosa Segado’s instance. Why was this the case?

 

Because she was probably a “witch.”

Or at least that’s what The Cambodia Daily reported when they spoke with Major General Heisela, who said police officers were worried when she started taking photos of them. 

“We were worried she might be a sorcerer and then take photos to do black magic on our stomachs,” he said. 

“Everyone knows the Spanish practice magic,” he said. “They can fly on brooms.”

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Cambodia Denies Allegations that Deported Spanish Researcher was Beaten

PHNOM PENH - Cambodian authorities denied on Thursday that Spanish researcher Marga Bujosa Segado - deported from the country last month - had been beaten, and shrugged off earlier statements to the media charging her with sorcery as a joke. The researcher was deported on Aug. 17, a day after being detained for participating in a protest along with activists demanding respect for human rights.

Bujosa, a doctoral candidate from the University of Granada researching these activists, told EFE she had been "kicked" while in custody, adding she had complained about the incident to the Spanish Embassy in Thailand. The beating allegedly took place when Bujosa refused to hand over her phone to officers, who returned it later but only after erasing all of its photographs.

However, the chief of investigations at the immigration department, Uk Heisela, told EFE that while the Spaniard had behaved aggressively with them, they had treated her politely. In statements to The Cambodia Daily newspaper, Heisela attributed Bujosa's behaviour to drug consumption and justified deleting the pictures to prevent her from using them "to do black magic."

 

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Cambodia Denies Allegations that Deported Spanish Researcher was Beaten

PHNOM PENH - Cambodian authorities denied on Thursday that Spanish researcher Marga Bujosa Segado - deported from the country last month - had been beaten, and shrugged off earlier statements to the media charging her with sorcery as a joke. The researcher was deported on Aug. 17, a day after being detained for participating in a protest along with activists demanding respect for human rights.

Bujosa, a doctoral candidate from the University of Granada researching these activists, told EFE she had been "kicked" while in custody, adding she had complained about the incident to the Spanish Embassy in Thailand. The beating allegedly took place when Bujosa refused to hand over her phone to officers, who returned it later but only after erasing all of its photographs.

However, the chief of investigations at the immigration department, Uk Heisela, told EFE that while the Spaniard had behaved aggressively with them, they had treated her politely. In statements to The Cambodia Daily newspaper, Heisela attributed Bujosa's behaviour to drug consumption and justified deleting the pictures to prevent her from using them "to do black magic."

 

read more http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=2420011&CategoryId=12395

[Colabamumbai]

It appears that the 'black magic" started early.

[mesterm]

Wow

[cruisemonkey]

I'm surprised it didn't go down a la Monty Python -

"She's a witch! Burn her!"

[Khon Kaen Dave]

And these are the same police that are meant to protect and serve the citizens and tourists of Cambodia.

Witchcraft indeed,ignorant,stupid,backward and violent(even to a woman)

We all know its the Haitians that fly brooms,not the Spanish.