3 Sentenced in Detaining Of Chinese During Strike
By Prak Chan Thul
The Cambodia Daily
Kandal Provincial Court sentenced three Free Trade Union members to three years each in prison Monday after finding them guilty of illegal detention for preventing three Chinese employees from leaving a garment factory during a strike in June, officials said. Presiding Judge Sim Samoer reduced the sentences of Lach Sambo, 43, Yin Khun, 31, and Sal Kimsan, 29, to five years' probation and released the trio, who were arrested and have been detained in prison since July 4, Prosecutor Chroeng Khamo said Tuesday. Former employees at the Genuine Garment factory in Kandal province's Ang Snuol district, the union representatives were found guilty of detaining the Chinese nationals during a strike that shut the plant on June 28 and 29. The FTU members denied they detained the three and claim they could have left the factory by a back entrance while the main entrance was blocked by striking workers. "We are not so happy with this because we asked that the charges be dropped," said Dun Vibol, a lawyer for the FTU members. "But it is a positive step that my clients could get out of detention," he said. Vuth Lyna, communications officer at the International Labor Organization, which monitors conditions in the country's garment factories under the Better Factories Cambodia Project, declined to comment, stating that he did not have all the details.
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