Leaflets get unionist in hot water
Police in Svay Rieng province yesterday afternoon arrested a
union worker who was delivering flyers supporting a stay-at-home strike
scheduled to begin after Khmer New Year.
While delivering about 1,100 fliers to union members at Full Fortune
Knitting, Kem Chamroeun, a 25-year-old Collective Union of Movement of
Workers (CUMW) employee, called union president Pav Sina to say that
police were following him, Sina said yesterday.
“Kem Chamroeun brought the leaflets about the stay-at-home strike to
our units at Full Fortune so they could distribute them to workers
tomorrow,” Sina said. “But the authorities stopped and arrested him,
taking his phone and leaflets.”
Deputy provincial police chiefs Nup Kimheng, Hem Saban and Nim Thourn
all said they were unaware of the arrest. Svay Rieng Provincial
Governor Cheang Am could not be reached for comment.
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