The United Nations Human Rights Office has urged the immediate release of a prominent trade unionist after Cambodia’s Supreme Court upheld her conviction and a two-year jail term.
Chhim Sithar was jailed for “incitement to felony or disturb social order” in May last year after leading a strike against mass layoffs at the NagaWorld Casino in Phnom Penh.
On May 3, a four-judge panel found convictions against her and seven other defendants appropriate.
In full: https://www.ucanews.com/news/un-pressures-cambodia-to-release-trade-unionist/105003
