CEOCambodiaNews wrote: ↑Sun Feb 12, 2023 1:34 am Every so often, CEO News has posted reports where police round up random homeless people and drug addicts off the streets, or they raid brothels to "rescue" sex workers and underage girls. The news stories say that these people are helpless victims rescued by the police, who then send them to be cared for by the social welfare department or social workers.
This gives the impression that there is a welfare care system in place. However, those who have witnessed the living conditions in the Prey Speu Social Affairs Center, just outside of Phnom Penh, say that it is "hell on earth".
Conditions in Cambodian jails are also dire, but those unfortunates who are sent to "welfare centers" are detained without trial for an indefinite period. They can not appeal, because they are not sentenced; some of them should be in a mental hospital, others are just homeless, or were sent to rehab after they were found drinking, taking drugs, gambling, committing petty crimes, or their family asked the authorities for help.

Rights group calls on Cambodia to shutter rehab center described as ‘hell on earth’
The call comes after a UN rep met with officials to address ‘gaps’ in the center’s legal status.
By RFA Khmer
2023.02.10
Cambodia should immediately shutter a state-run rehabilitation center authorities operate as an extrajudicial detention facility, a local rights group said Thursday, citing reports of detainee abuse and deaths amid what have been described as hellish conditions.

Am Sam Ath of the Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights, or Licadho, called on Cambodia’s Ministry of Social Affairs, Veterans and Youth Rehabilitation to close the Prey Speu Social Affairs Center outside of the capital Phnom Penh over what he said were years of human rights abuses. Not doing so would risk the country’s image at home and abroad.

“Licadho believes there is no chance that the center can be improved,” he told RFA Khmer. “We continue to urge the government to shut it down because … the longer it remains open, the more detainees will suffer.”

Licadho has documented abuses at the Prey Speu center since its opening in 2004 and has called for its closure since 2008.

In December, the group reported that two people died while being arbitrarily detained there in August after they fell ill and were not provided with medical care. It also said it had found evidence of more than 10 deaths among the center’s more than 400 detainees in July and August.

“While Prey Speu claims to be a vocational training center … it functions as an unlawful detention facility to hide from view Phnom Penh’s most marginalized and at-risk citizens, while denying them their legal rights and basic necessities such as adequate food and medical care,” Licadho said at the time.

“People detained at the center, who are not charged with crimes but are held indefinitely and not allowed to leave, have overwhelmingly been from marginalized groups, including people who were homeless, begging, using drugs and sex workers.”
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambod ... 85641.html

John Bingham wrote: ↑Sun Feb 12, 2023 6:01 pm I went down 172 across 51 last night and there were crazy looking ice heads and dealers all over that junction. Grim.

Kammekor wrote: ↑Sun Feb 12, 2023 6:11 pm

John Bingham wrote: ↑Sun Feb 12, 2023 6:01 pm I went down 172 across 51 last night and there were crazy looking ice heads and dealers all over that junction. Grim.

Demolishing the 'bars' hasn't improved the situation for sure. Now it looks more grim than ever

John Bingham wrote: ↑Sun Feb 12, 2023 6:01 pm I went down 172 across 51 last night and there were crazy looking ice heads and dealers all over that junction. Grim.

CEOCambodiaNews wrote: ↑Sun Feb 12, 2023 1:34 am Every so often, CEO News has posted reports where police round up random homeless people and drug addicts off the streets, or they raid brothels to "rescue" sex workers and underage girls. The news stories say that these people are helpless victims rescued by the police, who then send them to be cared for by the social welfare department or social workers.
This gives the impression that there is a welfare care system in place. However, those who have witnessed the living conditions in the Prey Speu Social Affairs Center, just outside of Phnom Penh, say that it is "hell on earth".
Conditions in Cambodian jails are also dire, but those unfortunates who are sent to "welfare centers" are detained without trial for an indefinite period. They can not appeal, because they are not sentenced; some of them should be in a mental hospital, others are just homeless, or were sent to rehab after they were found drinking, taking drugs, gambling, committing petty crimes, or their family asked the authorities for help.

Rights group calls on Cambodia to shutter rehab center described as ‘hell on earth’
The call comes after a UN rep met with officials to address ‘gaps’ in the center’s legal status.
By RFA Khmer
2023.02.10
Cambodia should immediately shutter a state-run rehabilitation center authorities operate as an extrajudicial detention facility, a local rights group said Thursday, citing reports of detainee abuse and deaths amid what have been described as hellish conditions.

Am Sam Ath of the Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights, or Licadho, called on Cambodia’s Ministry of Social Affairs, Veterans and Youth Rehabilitation to close the Prey Speu Social Affairs Center outside of the capital Phnom Penh over what he said were years of human rights abuses. Not doing so would risk the country’s image at home and abroad.

“Licadho believes there is no chance that the center can be improved,” he told RFA Khmer. “We continue to urge the government to shut it down because … the longer it remains open, the more detainees will suffer.”

Licadho has documented abuses at the Prey Speu center since its opening in 2004 and has called for its closure since 2008.

In December, the group reported that two people died while being arbitrarily detained there in August after they fell ill and were not provided with medical care. It also said it had found evidence of more than 10 deaths among the center’s more than 400 detainees in July and August.

“While Prey Speu claims to be a vocational training center … it functions as an unlawful detention facility to hide from view Phnom Penh’s most marginalized and at-risk citizens, while denying them their legal rights and basic necessities such as adequate food and medical care,” Licadho said at the time.

“People detained at the center, who are not charged with crimes but are held indefinitely and not allowed to leave, have overwhelmingly been from marginalized groups, including people who were homeless, begging, using drugs and sex workers.”
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambod ... 85641.html

cabron wrote: ↑Sat Feb 25, 2023 5:38 pm

Is there anyone which might have info for the drug addict rehab center :Beekeeper House on St. 240.

Jerry Atrick wrote: ↑Sat Feb 25, 2023 6:05 pm

cabron wrote: ↑Sat Feb 25, 2023 5:38 pm

Is there anyone which might have info for the drug addict rehab center :Beekeeper House on St. 240.

What info do you seek?

I know a few Filipino ladies who work there