Possible deportation and jail time is looming for a Cambodian refugee monk who was just lately detained by Thai authorities, regardless of the latest condemnation from the United Nations. Last month, three Cambodians underneath UN refugee safety were deported from Thailand and arrested of their home nation.
On Wednesday, Thai authorities arrested a Cambodian monk and an environmental activist Bor Bet, who is staying inside Thailand with international refugee standing at a temple in Samut Prakan. The detained abbot expressed his concern about being jailed if he would be despatched again residence to Cambodia.
Bor Bet was recognized for being an outspoken critic of Cambodian PM Hun Sen, who was recently given a default position to symbolize troubled Myanmar within the ASEAN bloc and is at present jailed on the Suanplu Immigration Detention Centre.
In an audio message to AFP reporters, the monk said…
“I might be jailed like different refugees in the occasion that they deport me to Cambodia.”
The news agency reported Cambodian police had not been aware of his arrest and Phnom Penh had not requested his imprisonment either .International diplomats, legal professionals, and human rights organisations then flocked to save heaps of him from being deported again to Cambodia, with a member of the Thai parliament additionally attempting to intervene.
All-inclusive of the Cross Cultural Foundation, Pornpen Kongkachonkiet, says the monk is unlikely to face a fair trial in Cambodia as Hun Sen’s administration has stifled opposition and activists by curbing democratic freedoms and using the judiciary to suppress them.
The deputy head of Human Rights Watch’s Asia, Phil Robertson, stated Phnom Penh was attempting to quiet criticism from the exiled population in Thailand.
“The fact that they defrocked and jailed this monk demonstrates an apparent lack of Buddhist charity… both Thais and Cambodians would find that appalling”.
Cambodian activists Veourn Veasna and Voeung Samnang had been recently deported from Thailand to their residence country in early November..