The arrest and detention of at least 29 casino union leaders and activists during a strike that began on New Year's Eve in Cambodia, may represent a breach of human rights law, independent UN rights experts said on Wednesday.
Most of the strikers were women and many of the arrests were conducted in "a violent way", the experts added. The arrests appeared to contravene the right to freedom of association, assembly and expression.
"We also strongly condemn the manner in which the first arrests took place, after dark, on a day where multiple other events diverted public attention", the experts said.
For them, this could be seen as "an underhanded way to clamp down on fundamental human rights and impinge on the free exercise of the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association."
🇰🇭 #Cambodia: Arrest and detention of at least 29 casino union leaders and activists during a strike that began on New Year's Eve may amount to a breach of human rights law - UN experts.
