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A legal brief on Cambodia’s Covid-19 Law used to persecute human rights defenders and other activists

Concerns about the Covid-19 Law were quickly realised when it was immediately used to authorise sweeping restrictions, including repressive lockdowns and the arrests of journalists and other public critics of the government’s Covid-19 response. Employed measures created disproportionate and unnecessary restrictions on the rights to freedom of movement, peaceful assembly, association, and expression. The UN Secretary-General’s 2021 report to the UN Human Rights Council stated that at least 729 people were arrested under the Covid-19 Law between mid-April and the end of May 2021, and more than 100 were detained, figures the Cambodian government disputes. In later months, as case numbers began to decline, the law was strategically used against land rights demonstrators and labour rights activists, among other human rights defenders.

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Head Office Full name: Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights (LICADHO) Address: #16, St. 99, Boeung Trabek, Phnom Penh, Cambodia Mailing Address: P.O. Box 499, Phnom Penh, Cambodia Tel: (855) 23 727 102 or (855) 23 216 602 Fax: (855) 23 727 102 or (855) 23 217 626 E-mail: contact@licadho-cambodia.org

ရေးသားသူ (အဖွဲ့) Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights (LICADHO)
ထုတ်ဝေသည့်နေရာ Phnom Penh, Cambodia
ထုတ်ဝေသူ Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights (LICADHO)
ထုတ်ဝေသည့်ရက်စွဲ 2022
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Link to original sources: https://www.licadho-cambodia.org/reports.php?perm=238&english

ဆက်ခံရရှိကြောင်းညွှန်းဆိုသည့်စာတမ်း Analysis_COVID-19_Law__29.09.2022.pdf
အဓိကစကားလုံးများ Law on COVID-19,Legal Briefing
တင်ခဲ့သည့်ရက်စွဲ အောက်တိုဘာ 18, 2022, 05:06 (UTC)
ပြန်လည်ပြင်ဆင်သည့်ရက်စွဲ အောက်တိုဘာ 18, 2022, 05:10 (UTC)