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Prisoner Release – 1996

According to the US State Department’s country report on human rights practices, the Cambodian “government often arrests persons on questionable criminal charges, usually drug trafficking or espionage, when their actual ‘offensesÕ are political” (U.S. Department of State, 1997).¹“Cambodia Report on Human Rights Practices for 1996,” U.S. Department of State, January 30, 1997, accessed July 30, 2010, http://www.state.gov/www/global/human_rights/1996_hrp_report/cambodia.ht…