Trio are being held in immigration confinement despite having UN refugee status.
Published on February 3, 2024, at 13 :59
In Thailand, two Thai activists and a former political detainee have been detained in advance of Hun Manet’s visit, which is scheduled for next week.
According to Radio Free Asia ( RFA ), the arrests are the most recent instance of the Cambodian government using its influence abroad.
According to RFA, Kong Raiya was apprehended during an immigration collection at an apartment complex in Bangkok. Kong has been imprisoned twice for routines against the state. Senior Candlelight Party part Lim Sokha and opposition advocate Phan Phana, who had been abducted from his Rayong household, were also detained.
The three, who are connected to the Cambodia Youth Network, had lately fled to Thailand in search of prison and had been given refugee status.
On Wednesday, when Prime Minister Hun Manet is expected to arrive for an established attend and speak with his Thai equivalent Srettha Thavisin, they had planned to hold a rally march.
Prior to having his cellphone seized, PhAN Phana told RFA Khmer,” I am worried that I will be deported back to Cambodia.” Because the authorities are requesting information about other activists,” The [ruling Thai People’s Party ] were behind this incarceration.”
RFA claimed it was unable to get in touch with a Thai government spokesman regarding the arrests.
After his parents, the longtime leader Hun Sen, resigned in August, Kong Raiya claimed that Thai police collaborated with the Thai government to have him arrested. Manet later became the country’s prime minister.
He explained that Thai authorities may have known his whereabouts by tapping his cellphone or tracking him online, adding that” The state was angry so I got arrested.”
The three protesters were being held in Bangkok’s Suan Phlu immigration detention facility, according to brother Candlelight Party advocate Khem Monykosal, who is also applying for asylum in Thailand.
” Things are tense right now. Authorities are staking out structures, according to Khem Monykosal. ” They will arrest us if we go down there.” I implore the Thai government to stop harming us and to provide immigrant rights more consideration.
As the judgement CPP has used coercion and the courts to neutralize the political opposition, lots of pro-democracy Thai activists have fled to Thailand in recent years.
Thai authorities detained 10 Vietnamese migrants on December 29 while they were in Bangkok for a Paris Peace Agreement training. According to CamboJA News, a company run by the Vietnamese Journalists Federation, three people were afterwards freed but seven more were still detained in immigration two weeks later. Their present situation is unknown.
A total of 40 people had been enrolled in the course, including Khmer Krom migrants, Candlelight Party followers, protesters of the now-defunct Cambodian National Rescue Party, and workers from Cambodia in Thailand.
Ten people who had ID cards issued by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ) were detained when police showed up at the meeting and requested to check documents, according to CamboJa News.
Thai authorities have charged them with entering the country illegally, while the Thai government has accused them of trying to topple the state.