Hun Sen is waging ‘systematic campaign’ to silence dissent: Amnesty

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Alex Willemyns

 

Cambodia’s criminal justice system appears to have been methodically suppressing opposition to Prime Minister Hun Sen’s government in the lead-up to important elections, with critics of his regime routinely being jailed without evidence or fair trial, Amnesty International says in a report released today.

 

Hun Sen’s government “seems to have embarked on a systematic campaign” to smother criticism by concocting “unfounded and fabricated” criminal cases against those who dare speak out, Amnesty says, with arrests increasing as elections approach.

 

The report, titled Courts of Injustice: Suppressing Activism Through the Criminal Justice System in Cambodia, notes that at least 27 prominent opposition officials and “human rights defenders” have been imprisoned since the 2013 national election – but says more than 200 others have faced spurious legal cases.

 

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DUH! And this is a new development, or is somehow new news? He has been doing this for 30 years. Why is this news now? The real fault lies with the Western governments for supporting this madman, serial killing, billionaire dictator, and allowing him to call his country a democracy. Just ask Sam Rainsy or the late great Che Vichea.