Cambodia: Repression of Opposition Increases

Expand Workers march along a street to mark International Labor Day in Phnom Penh on May 1, 2019. © 2019 Tang Chhin Sothy/AFP via Getty Images (Bangkok) – The Cambodian government stepped up its crackdown on political opposition members and activists over the past year, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2020. At one point the government held nearly 90 political prisoners throughout the country, mostly people linked to the court-dissolved Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP). From January until mid-2019, the authorities ordered over 150 court and police summonses against CNRP…

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