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Monday, 20 September 2010 00:09 Cheang Sokha
THE Ministry of Foreign Affairs has ordered officials at the Cambodian embassy in Bangkok to investigate reports that a Cambodian migrant worker was tortured to death in a Thai prison.
Ministry spokesman Koy Kuong said yesterday that he had received information Khmer-language newspapers that a Cambodian migrant worker who was detained in Thailand’s Rayong province was tortured to death a few months ago.
“I passed on this information to the Cambodian embassy officials in Bangkok to investigate this case on Friday last week,” he said.
“They have received the information and will investigate as we are unsure of whether this information is 100 percent true.”
Dy Phen, chief of the Cambodia-Thailand Border Relations Office in Banteay Meanchey province’s Poipet town, said he had yet to hear about the case, but that he would order border officials to contact Thai authorities for more information.
Spokesmen for the Thai Foreign Ministry could not be reached for comment.
The unconfirmed report of torture would not be the first to have come out of Thailand this year. ...read the full story in tomorrow’s Phnom Penh Post or see the updated story in online from 3PM UTC/GMT +7 hours. (New York 4AM, Los Angeles 1AM, Chicago 3AM, Paris 10AM, Toronto 4AM, Sydney 6PM, Bejing 4PM, Tokyo 5PM, London 9AM, Johannesburg 10AM, Riyadh 11AM, Mumbai 1:30 PM)
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