Death Knell for Democracy: Attacks on Lawmakers and the Threat to Cambodia’s Institutions
March 03, 2017
Report, March 2017
In this report APHR describes how the Cambodia’s Parliament approved a set of new amendments to the Law on Political Parties marked a culmination of nearly two years of escalating persecution of Cambodian lawmakers. These attacks have come in the context of a renewed, broader crackdown on dissent, which has targeted nearly all segments of Cambodian civic life, as well as similar growing threats to other legislators across Southeast Asia.
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