PHNOM PENH: A Cambodian woman miscarried yesterday after police beat her and another pregnant protester during a crackdown on a land rally in the capital, a local rights group said.
The 33-year-old was 10 weeks’ pregnant, the Cambodian Human Rights and Development Association said. She was among around 100 people who blocked the road outside a municipal building in central Phnom Penh.
Police tried to drag the protesters from the road but they resisted, prompting officers to beat them, a witness said.
The pregnant women were kicked and beaten,” the asscocationi said, adding they were taken to hospital where the miscarriage was confirmed.
The protesters, from Phnom Penh’s lakeside area, were demanding more compensation or the return of land given by the government to a Chinese company for a commercial development.
