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7 September 2026

The seven-year prison sentence handed down to 25-year-old Thy Thorn, vice president of the Khmer Student Intelligent League Association (KSILA), on 2 September over baseless plotting charges is a disproportionate punishment for Thorn's commitment to peaceful activism. We, the undersigned civil society group, are deeply pained by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court's decision, and we call for Thorn to be immediately released and the charges against him to be dropped.

In August 2024, Thorn was arrested in relation to public protests and social media campaigns opposing the Cambodia-Laos-Vietnam Development Triangle Area (CLV-DTA), a regional cooperation agreement from which later the Cambodian government withdrew itself. Thorn was among the more than 60 people arrested, charged and imprisoned over their expression opposing the agreement. Thorn has had his requests for bail and early release rejected by the Municipal, Appeal and Supreme Court, but he has remained committed to his activism throughout these two years of legal setbacks.

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Intimate image abuse is a type of gender-based violence emerging across Cambodia. LICADHO has documented 24 cases involving intimate image abuse since 2021, with more than one-third opened in the last 12 months alone. While these cases likely represent only a small fraction of those occurring in Cambodia, they reveal clear patterns of abuse.