{
  "id": 3723010,
  "title": "Cambodia defies UN call to free ‘arbitrarily jailed’ environmental activists",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/27/cambodia-defies-un-call-to-free-arbitrarily-jailed-environmental",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-08-27T10:30:23.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Mongabay",
    "slug": "mongabay",
    "url": "https://news.mongabay.com/2026/08/cambodia-defies-un-call-to-free-arbitrarily-jailed-environmental-activists/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "CHIANG MAI, Thailand — The Cambodian government has defended its continued imprisonment of five environmental activists, after the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention declared the five had been arbitrarily detained and called for their immediate release. The activists, from environmental group Mother Nature Cambodia, have since 2024 been serving prison sentences of between […]",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}