In Cambodia, it is not unusual to find the cops dragging some sex workers to the jail and then unlawfully arresting them to face beatings or extortion or worse than this rape. Rights groups brought this forward to the Cambodian government and asked them to bring this issue to light and solve things up at the earliest.

The Human Rights Watch which is based in New York stated that they had interviews with nearly 90 sex workers and even transgender who said that they were faced with regular and routine abuse by authorities which unlawfully take them to custody.

The group prepared a 76 page report to show it to the concerned authorities and stated that the prostitutes were beaten up with sticks, wooden handles, blows, and then also sexually assaulted them and robbed them of their money and valuable possessions.

They were detained and while in dismal conditions were robbed and raped as well. The “Law on Suppression of Human Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation” was taken into effect by the Cambodian government in 2008 after years of continuous pressure from the United States.

However, rights groups complain the new law has a hand in worsening the conditions of the prostitutes since police use it for justifying the harassment that the sex workers face.

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