CNRP Warned Over Endorsing ‘Black Monday’ Campaign

 Cambodia Daily | 9 August 2016

The CNRP threw itself behind the “Black Monday” campaign seeking the release of jailed human rights and election officials on Monday—at least behind closed doors—drawing a warning from the government for supporting the peaceful campaign.

The party’s endorsement came as an activist was arrested and later released and Prampi Makara district police blocked about a dozen protesters and ripped banners, including photographs of political activist Kem Ley, who was assassinated last month.

Activists and government security guards clash in Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak neighborhood in July during a protest to mark the ninth ‘Black Monday.’ (Satoshi Takahashi)

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