Cambodians nationwide and people across the globe demonstrated unity today with the 23 workers and rights defenders arrested in last month’s violent clampdown on striking garment workers, where at least four died and 38 were hospitalized, 25 of which suffered from bullet wounds.

In Cambodia, unions, associations, and communities organized at least 400 balloon send-offs across the country from offices, universities, pagodas, and factories, such as the ones on Veng Sreng road, the site of the lethal clampdown in early January. Around noon, all groups simultaneously released balloons in Phnom Penh, Kampong Som, Battambang, Siem Reap, Poipet, and Banteay Meanchey to call for the freedom of the 23 arrested.

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