Activists Deported from Thailand
Opposition activists Voeun Veasna​ and Voeung Samnang have been deported to Cambodia from Thailand.

BY: Mao Sopha and Phoung Vantha November 11, 2021 8:58 PM
PHNOM PENH​--Opposition activists Voeun Veasna and Voeung Samnang have been deported to Cambodia from Thailand. The deportations on November 8 were at the request of Cambodian authorities.

Interior Ministry spokesman Khieu Sopheak said the arrests of the pair in Thailand were in line with a Cambodian court order.

He refused to say where they were and the charges they faced but said they had committed acts that harmed the national interest and for which they could be prosecuted.

Neither National Police spokesman Chhay Kim Khoeun nor Phnom Penh Municipal Court spokesman Y Rin could be reached for comment.

Voeung Samnang was former deputy chief of Chaktomuk commune from the former CNRP.

On October 9, Voeun Veasna, who had been an environmental activist since he was a monk, used his Facebook account under the name "Kranhoung Preylang" to post a poem titled “HE is a Traitor” on the Prime Minister’s Facebook page.

The poem severely criticized HE's family, accusing it of destroying the nation, religion and forests and of using violence against people.

HE considered the poem to be full of violence and said radical action had to be taken to eliminate these extremist ideas and activity at any cost. He also posted a court order for the authorities to arrest Voeun Veasna.
https://cambodianess.com/article/activi ... m-thailand

Cambodia urged to free dissidents deported from Thailand
Cambodian refugees hiding in Bangkok say surveillance and threats have been ramped up.
By UCA News -
November 13, 2021
Human rights groups have urged Cambodian authorities to immediately drop “politically motivated charges” against activists Veourn Veasna and Voeung Samnang, who were forcibly returned by Thai immigration authorities this week.

Both men are tied to the outlawed Cambodian National Rescue Party (CNRP) and were deported despite the intervention of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees where they had registered under refugee protection.

“Thailand’s forcible return of these two refugees shows a blatant disregard for fundamental refugee protection principles,” said Bill Frelick, the refugee and migrants director at Human Rights Watch (HRW).

In full: https://www.ucanews.com/news/cambodia-u ... land/94948#

Hey, maybe the UK and the US government can deport Julian Assuage to Cambodia too. Same offence, telling the truth as they see it.
That wouldn't be a human rights abuse - 20 years in Prey Sar is a lot more humane than 780 years in a US UltraMax.

UN condemns Thailand for deporting third Cambodian refugee

Thavry Lanh fled to Thailand more than four years ago. Photo from Facebook.
BY: Agence France-Presse November 23, 2021 1:37 PM

Bangkok, Thailand | The United Nations refugee agency has condemned Thailand for deporting a third Cambodian refugee in two weeks, after a former female politician was sent back to a Phnom Penh jail.

Thavry Lanh -- who represented the now dissolved Cambodian opposition party at district government level and was a vocal critic of Prime Minister HE's government -- fled to Thailand more than four years ago.

Thai immigration officers arrested her on Friday in an eastern border town and she was sent to Cambodia the next day.

Gillian Triggs, a senior official with the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), said the move contravened the principle of non-refoulement, under which countries are banned from sending people back to places where their lives or freedom are in danger.

Thavry Lanh's deportation came 10 days after two other Cambodian UNHCR-registered refugees were sent across the border, the agency said in a statement issued on Monday.

The UNHCR tried to intervene in all three cases but the Thai government went ahead with the deportations.

"We are extremely alarmed by this trend of forcibly returning refugees to Cambodia, where they face a serious risk of persecution," Triggs said in the statement, adding that the agency was worried about the fate of other UNHCR-registered refugees in Thailand.

Thavry Lanh's husband Radong Phin said he had grave fears for his wife's safety and wellbeing.

She was in custody at Prey Sar prison in Phnom Penh, awaiting trial for "treason" but the court date was unknown, he said.
In full: https://cambodianess.com/article/un-con ... an-refugee

Wow. She looks dangerous.

Thinking about the Thai dissident grabbed and diappeared in Phnom Penh you can see a cozy mutual arrangement between the 2 countries for inconvenient opposition.

Cambodian monk seeks overseas asylum after release from detention in Thailand
Venerable Bor Bet says he feels unsafe in Thailand and is discussing havens in Europe.
2021.12.03

A Cambodian Buddhist monk and outspoken critic of his country's authoritarian has been released after two days in Thai custody and is seeking asylum in “any democratic country” that will take him, he told RFA on Friday.

Ven. Bor Bet had taken refuge in Thailand in November 2020 to avoid arrest for joining protests in Phnom Penh demanding the release of a jailed labor union leader.

He was arrested Wednesday night at a temple in Samut Prakan south of Bangkok and transferred to an immigration detention center, sparking fears he would be deported to Cambodia and join the score of political prisoners put behind bars in HE’s four-year crackdown on opponents.

“I told my lawyer that with the current situation, I must decide to live in a third country because it is not safe in Thailand,” he told RFA’s Khmer Service Friday.

“I will live in any democratic country. I am deciding right now, but I will go to the country that selects me first,” the monk added, mentioning Switzerland as one candidate.

“The monk was granted bail and released at 2 p.m. today. He is currently in Bangkok,” said Siripa Intavichein, the deputy spokeswoman for Thailand’s Democrat Party and for the Thai parliamentary committee on torture and enforced disappearance.

“The next step is the UNHCR, Human Rights Watch and other organizations to deal with foreign embassies to find for him third-country asylum. Many countries are offering him refuge,” she told BenarNews, an RFA-affiliated online news agency.
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambod ... 82405.html