A Cambodian labor union leader has been sentenced to 18 months in prison in connection with comments he made in a live broadcast on Facebook two years ago that criticized the arrest of a casino worker. The Cambodian Labor Confederation said the case was aimed at intimidating labor unions.
PHNOM PENH , Cambodia — A Cambodia n labor union leader has been sentenced to 18 months in prison in connection with comments he made in a live broadcast on Facebook two years ago that criticized the arrest of a casino worker, an official of a local rights group said Wednesday.
New York-based Human Rights Watch said in a recent report that Cambodia is effectively a one-party state with “control of all state institutions, political control of the judiciary, and systematic harassment and targeting of critics in the political opposition and civil society.”
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