This screengrab taken from an undated handout video from Amnesty International released on May 12, 2020 shows prisoners in an overcrowded jail at an unknown location in Cambodia. - AFP
PHNOM PENH (AFP): Cambodia's prisons are overspilling with drug convicts after a crackdown on addicts, a rights group said Wednesday (May 3), releasing rare footage of dozens of inmates squashed together in a sweltering cell.
The kingdom has taken a hard line on drugs in recent years as traffickers use the country as a transit point for heroin and methamphetamine and domestic addiction surges.
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