Cambodia to pass laws allowing for citizenship to be stripped

Cambodian lawmakers amended the constitution Friday paving the way for people charged with foreign collusion to be stripped of their citizenship, despite concerns such a law could be used to silence government critics. “We are deeply concerned that the Cambodian government, given the power to strip people of their citizenship, will misuse it to crackdown on its critics and make them stateless,” Amnesty International’s regional research director Montse Ferrer said.