Rights Commission Decries Ratanakkiri Roadblock
By Sok Khemara, VOA Khmer Original report from Washington
04 December 2007
The Asian Human Rights Commission called on the government Monday to investigate allegations that police prevented villagers from attending a public forum in Ratanakkiri province in late November.
"The police set up a roadblock to prevent the organizers from entering the place so that the forum was not held," the Commission said in a statement.
Villagers had wanted to meet over alleged land grabs in their area.
The Commission said a police roadblock was a suppression of the right to the freedom of assembly guaranteed by the constitution.
It urged concerned citizens to send a request to Cambodia's top officials to punish the police in charge and to take "effective measures to prevent such suppression in the future."
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