US mayor wants government to release activists

17 January 2015
The Cambodia Daily
Government / Human rights / Provincial and local governments / Social development
Boeng Kak community / Council of Ministers / Phay Siphan / Prey Sar Prison / Rodney Elliott / United States (U.S.)

The mayor of Lowell, Massachusetts—which has the second-largest population of Cambodian-Americans in the U.S.—on Friday visited 10 anti-eviction activists inside Phnom Penh’s Prey Sar prison, emerging to announce that he would lobby the government for their release.

Wrapping up a five-day visit to Phnom Penh, Rodney Elliott spent about an hour inside the maximum-security facility, where the female activists have been detained since their convictions over a pair of protests in November. ...

 Khuon Narim and Holly Robertson
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