Cambodia defies UN call to free ‘arbitrarily jailed’ environmental activists

Mongabay
Aug 27, 2026, 6:30 am109 ptsTrending
CHIANG MAI, Thailand — The Cambodian government has defended its continued imprisonment of five environmental activists, after the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention declared the five had been arbitrarily detained and called for their immediate release. The activists, from environmental group…

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