Senator Leila de Lima called on the Cambodian government on Monday to free five human rights defenders (HRDs) who were sentenced to five years in prison for the "fabricated" charge of "bribery of a witness." "We call upon the Cambodian government to abide by the commitments it made both to the international community and to its own people by freeing these five HRDs," she saidon Mondayin a dispatch from Camp Crame in Quezon City. De Lima reminded the Cambodian government that their state, just like the Philippines, has igned the 1998 United Nations (UN) Declaration on Human Rights. She noted that Article 12 of the declaration mandates governments to recognize that HRDs are protec...
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