ASEAN Targeted During Petition Tour…(John Vink)

Phnom Penh. 29/01/2014: A group of citizens representing nearly 200 NGO's and organisations, is stopped by riot police and municipality guards and forced to proceed by tuk tuk when touring several embassies to deliver a petition requesting the liberation of 23 people arrested and jailed during the January 2nd and 3d violent crackdown on a garment worker's strike.

ASEAN Targeted During Petition Tour…

John Vink | 29 Jan. 2014

A group of citizens, representing nearly 200 NGO’s and associations, continued a tour of several embassies initiated on January 23rd, to deliver a petition requesting the release of 23 people arrested during the violent crackdown by armed forces on striking workers this last January 2nd and 3rd (see HERE). After having given the petition to the Singapore embassy, the group was briefly stopped in its progress by riot police and the unfamous helmeted Municipal Guards. A deal was finally reached to let the group proceed to the remaining embassies or agencies by tuk-tuk. Petitions were delivered to the embassies of Brunei, UNDP, Myanmar, Indonesia, Vietnam (no one there due to the Tet festivities), Philippines and finally China.

Phnom Penh. 29/01/2014: A group of citizens representing nearly 200 NGO's and organisations, distributing a press release before touring several embassies to deliver a petition requesting the liberation of 23 people arrested and jailed during the January 2nd and 3d violent crackdown on a garment worker's strike.

Phnom Penh. 29/01/2014: A group of citizens representing nearly 200 NGO's and organisations, toured several embassies to deliver a petition requesting the liberation of 23 people arrested and jailed during the January 2nd and 3d violent crackdown on a garment worker's strike.

Phnom Penh. 29/01/2014: Municipal Guard holding a truncheon when stopping a group of citizens representing nearly 200 NGO's and organisations, touring several embassies to deliver a petition requesting the liberation of 23 people arrested and jailed during the January 2nd and 3d violent crackdown on a garment worker's strike.

Phnom Penh. 29/01/2014: A group of citizens representing nearly 200 NGO's and organisations, is stopped by riot police and municipality guards and forced to proceed by tuk tuk when touring several embassies to deliver a petition requesting the liberation of 23 people arrested and jailed during the January 2nd and 3d violent crackdown on a garment worker's strike.

Phnom Penh. 29/01/2014: Mam Sonando, Director of Beehive Radio, briefly joins a group of citizens representing nearly 200 NGO's and organisations, touring several embassies to deliver a petition requesting the liberation of 23 people arrested and jailed during the January 2nd and 3d violent crackdown on a garment worker's strike.

Phnom Penh. 29/01/2014: Municipal Guards monitoring a group of citizens representing nearly 200 NGO's and organisations, touring several embassies to deliver a petition requesting the liberation of 23 people arrested and jailed during the January 2nd and 3d violent crackdown on a garment worker's strike.

Phnom Penh. 29/01/2014: Yorm Bopha, Land Rights Activist and former Amnesty International Prisoner of Conscience (with sunglasses), joining a group of citizens representing nearly 200 NGO's and organisations, touring several embassies to deliver a petition requesting the liberation of 23 people arrested and jailed during the January 2nd and 3d violent crackdown on a garment worker's strike.