Cambodian authorities have been accused of inflicting “cruel and unusual punishment” on 10 environmental activists who were jailed for up to eight years and then separated and dispatched to remote prisons across the country.
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Human rights group Licadho has led a long chorus in condemning the lengthy sentences imposed by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on June 2 adding the prisoners had been divided up and sent to five different prisons, hundreds of kilometers from their residences and families.
“Splitting up activists to ensure they are detained far from each other, and their families is a cruel and unusual punishment that has no precedent in Cambodia,” Licadho said in a statement.
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