Protest leader arrested in Mondolkiri after reoccupation attempt
An anti-eviction protester who police claim orchestrated several large-scale reoccupation attempts on a planned rubber plantation in Mondolkiri province was arrested on 11 July, police and a rights monitor said. About 500 families living on the land were evicted in 2012, three years after the Pacific Pearl Joint Stock Company was granted a 9,614-hectare economic land concession to develop a rubber plantation, which has yet to begin operations. Eang Mengly, provincial monitor for rights group Adhoc, said the families had been protesting since their eviction, submitting petitions to the National Assembly, the Interior Ministry and the Land Management Ministry—to no avail.
