human rights defender
Thun Ratha
Actions and Campaigns
Thun Ratha
HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDER
Urgent support needed
Legal assistance, psychosocial assistance, and humanitarian support.
Organization affiliation
- Mother Nature Cambodia
HRD's year of birth
1992
HRD's Gender
Man
Type of HRD
- Social and community leader
HRD's thematic area of engagement
- Environmental rights
HRD's geographical origin
Rural
Current Status
In prison (sentenced)
HRD's bio and work
Thun Ratha is a prominent Cambodian environmental activist born in 1992 in Boeng Leu Village, Kandal Province. He initially pursued studies in International Relations at Khemarak University while working various jobs to support himself. His passion for environmental protection led him to join the Mother Nature movement in 2015, where he became actively involved in campaigns against sand dredging and other environmental issues.
Ratha’s activism has resulted in multiple arrests and legal challenges. In 2024, he was sentenced to six years in prison on charges of “plotting” related to his environmental advocacy
Detained since
Jul 2, 2024
Charge(s)
- Subversion
Sentence
6 years imprisonment
Latitude: 11.91824418705804
Longitude: 105.6180325123829
Geolocation of detention
Country or area of detention
Region of detention
- South-eastern Asia
Location of detention - City/Town
Tboung Kmum
Location of detention - Facility
Correctional Center 3 in Tboung Kmum province
Recent case update / evolution
Thun Ratha was sentenced to 6 years in prison for the plotting by Phnom Penh Municipal Court on 2 July 2024.
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- Country(ies) of nationality
- HRD's year of birth
- 1992
- HRD's Gender
- Man
- Type of HRD
- Social and community leader
- HRD's thematic area of engagement
- Environmental rights
- Organization affiliation
- Mother Nature Cambodia
- HRD's Picture
- HRD's bio and work
Thun Ratha is a prominent Cambodian environmental activist born in 1992 in Boeng Leu Village, Kandal Province. He initially pursued studies in International Relations at Khemarak University while working various jobs to support himself. His passion for environmental protection led him to join the Mother Nature movement in 2015, where he became actively involved in campaigns against sand dredging and other environmental issues.
Ratha’s activism has resulted in multiple arrests and legal challenges. In 2024, he was sentenced to six years in prison on charges of “plotting” related to his environmental advocacy
- HRD's geographical origin
- Rural
- Country or area of detention
- Region of detention
- South-eastern Asia
- Location of detention - City/Town
- Tboung Kmum
- Location of detention - Facility
- Correctional Center 3 in Tboung Kmum province
- Geolocation of detention
Latitude: 11.91824418705804
Longitude: 105.6180325123829
- Geolocation of detention
- Detained since
- Jul 2, 2024
- Current Status
- In prison (sentenced)
- Charge(s)
- Subversion
- Sentence
6 years imprisonment
- Recent case update / evolution
Thun Ratha was sentenced to 6 years in prison for the plotting by Phnom Penh Municipal Court on 2 July 2024.
- Protection actions and campaigns
- Urgent support needed
Legal assistance, psychosocial assistance, and humanitarian support.
- Any other relevant documents
- Documented by
- Consent status
- Consent to register, store and publish the information
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