2024: Sithar Chhim - Forum för levande historia

EnglishThe Per Anger Prize

The Per Anger prize winner of 2024, Sithar Chhim, is paying a high price for her union engagement and has endured harassment and threats for years. On September 16 2024 she was released from prison, having served two years.

A portrait of a woman (Malú García Andrade) looking into the camera.

Sithar Chhim. Photo: Cambodian Center for Human Rights

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Sithar Chhim and the struggle for justice

Sithar Chhim´s smiling face is seen through the window of the prison van that is bringng her from Phnom Penh Municipal Court, which has just sentenced to two years in prison.

They can put me and other leaders in prison, but they cannot shut down our fighting spirit.

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