Free to Draw
The Interior Ministry ordered an art exhibition, on the eve of its opening in Phnom Penh Friday, to remove a number of drawings by young people depicting conditions inside prisons housing child inmates, an organiser confirmed.
The four pictures removed from the exhibition at the National Cultural Center were drawn by children between the ages of 13 and 17... One of the drawings removed from the exhibition, 'Experiences and Dreams by Children in Prison,' depicted a child being threatened by a man holding a stick. Another showed a child in handcuffs, and a third featured a guard entering a classroom holding handcuffs.
The Interior Minister had already removed other pictures deemed unsuitable for public consumption, including one drawn by a 15-year-old boy showing a youth being beaten by three policemen with the accompanying caption: 'If you do not confess, I will beat you.'
[Another drawing by a 13-year-old was accompanied by the caption] 'When I am in prison I don't want anyone to beat me.'
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Young Inmates' Pictures Removed From Exhibit
By Fergal Quinn & Lam Bopha
THE CAMBODIA DAILY
The four pictures removed from the exhibition at the National Cultural Center were drawn by children between the ages of 13 and 17... One of the drawings removed from the exhibition, 'Experiences and Dreams by Children in Prison,' depicted a child being threatened by a man holding a stick. Another showed a child in handcuffs, and a third featured a guard entering a classroom holding handcuffs.
The Interior Minister had already removed other pictures deemed unsuitable for public consumption, including one drawn by a 15-year-old boy showing a youth being beaten by three policemen with the accompanying caption: 'If you do not confess, I will beat you.'
[Another drawing by a 13-year-old was accompanied by the caption] 'When I am in prison I don't want anyone to beat me.'
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Young Inmates' Pictures Removed From Exhibit
By Fergal Quinn & Lam Bopha
THE CAMBODIA DAILY
posted by pip @ 3:35 pm
1 Comments:
At 2:43 pm ,
Lisa said...
definitely unsuitable for public consumption... they shouldn't give them more than 2 meals a day, or let them out of the cells more than once a week either. Oh, that's right... they don't!
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