Detentions ‘arbitrary’: UN

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Ananth Baliga, Hor Kimsay and Jack Davies

 

The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) has called for the immediate release of five human rights workers jailed since late April.

 

Made public over the weekend, the working group’s legal opinion on the imprisonment of the “Adhoc 5” finds that their detention to be in violation of international human, political and civil rights conventions to which the Cambodian government is a signatory.

 

“Taking into account all the circumstances of the case, the Working Group considers that the adequate remedy would be to release the above named five individuals immediately,” the report reads.

 

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