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Uproar over Cambodia’s establishment of China-style internet gateway
- Friday | 19th February, 2021
“Cambodia’s National Internet Gateway is the missing tool in the government’s toolbox for online repression,” he said in a statement. An 11-page decree announced on Wednesday requires internet service providers to reroute their services through a National Internet Gateway within the next 12 months, before February 2022. The gateway is similar to that of China, an important economic ally for Cambodia, which has seen its ties with the United States and European Union deteriorate recently. Emerlynne Gil, Amnesty International’s deputy regional director for research, called the new gateway “a disaster for human rights”. “In the context of an escalating crackdown on human rights defenders, mass trials of opposition supporters, and rising numbers of prisons of conscience – this development is especially alarming,” Gil added(Reporting by Prak Chan Thul.
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