Arrested in September 2020 for planning a one-woman protest to call for the preservation of Phnom Penh’s largest lake, Long Kunthea has been locked in prison for more than 180 days.

Kunthea’s cell is constantly filled with smoke from other detainees. Every day, she struggles even to breathe.

“It’s still hard,” her mother told LICADHO. “I don’t know what day my child will be free.”
In the lead-up to #IWD2021 LICADHO is highlighting the grave conditions facing every woman and girl locked in Cambodia's dangerously overcrowded prisons.

Women activists should be supported, not imprisoned.