Cambodian authorities arrested greater than 20 political and youth activists over the weekend in a bid to forestall deliberate protests towards an financial settlement with Laos and Vietnam, in response to native media experiences.
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CambojaNews reported yesterday that police made 19 arrests on Saturday evening, together with three officers from the opposition Candlelight Occasion and 16 “social youths,” adopted by 4 members of a company referred to as the Khmer Scholar Clever League Affiliation at their workplace yesterday morning. This got here after a minimum of 14 extra arrests have been reported final week. Posts on social media additionally recommend that the authorities made a variety of arrests outdoors the Royal Palace yesterday.
All the arrests relate to a protest that was deliberate within the capital Phnom Penh yesterday to demand that the federal government withdraw from the Cambodia-Laos-Vietnam (CLV) Triangle Growth Space, a free commerce settlement that was signed in 1999 and entered into power in 2004.
In full: https://thediplomat.com/2024/08/at-least-20-arrested-in-cambodia-for-protests-against-economic-pact/