The Cambodia Daily: Husband Locks Anti-Eviction Activist Yorm Bopha in House

Recently freed anti-eviction activist Yorm Bopha has become embroiled in a very public domestic dispute with her husband, with reporters Tuesday being called to their Boeng Kak area home by an NGO representative claiming that Ms. Bopha’s husband was trying to kill her.

Housing Rights Task Force director Sia Phearum said that he had alerted the media because he was afraid that Ms. Bopha—who was released from prison last year after serving one year on charges rights groups say were meant to silence her activism—would fall victim to local authorities’ dirty tactics.

“Yorm Bopha’s husband [Luos Sokhorn, 52] had locked her inside the house and none of the community, who could hear Ms. Bopha screaming, could get inside,” Mr. Phearum said.

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