Letter to Murray McCully today, 18 July 2014
Dear Minister
I write to
you with grave concerns for a NZ citizen who has been arrested and is
being held at the notorious Prey Sar prison on dubious charges and
apparently faces up to 30 years in jail for insurrection. The New
Zealander, Keo Phirom, is an MP-elect in Cambodia and appears to be
arrested for political reasons rather than any criminal ones. The
arrests took place following a peaceful protest that turned violent
after security police intervention. See in this Phnom Penh Post article http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/six-cnrp-members-jail
I ask that our Government takes a meaningful stand on behalf of a NZ
citizen, unlike the shameful stance our Government took in the early
1980s under Robert Muldoon when it continued to support Pol Pot's
leadership of Cambodia at the UN knowing that my brother, Kerry Hamill,
had been abducted, tortured and murdered by the Khmer Rouge regime under
the leadership of Pol Pot.
Regards
Rob Hamill
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