The Amnesty report – which is based on interviews with 423 victims of Cambodia’s scamming industry – documents what it calls abuses on a “mass scale” since 2022. It says thousands of migrant workers or trafficked persons, including children, have been confined in prison-like compounds and kept within restraining physical spaces while being forced to carry out online fraud or gambling.
torsdag 26. juni 2025
Amnesty accuses Cambodia of ‘gross failure’ to stop rampant abuses in scam centers
Cambodia and neighboring Laos, Myanmar and Thailand have seen a massive proliferation of scam compounds that rely on a large pool of trafficked labor and are run by organized crime groups whose links to powerful local interests allow them to operate with impunity.
The Amnesty report – which is based on interviews with 423 victims of Cambodia’s scamming industry – documents what it calls abuses on a “mass scale” since 2022. It says thousands of migrant workers or trafficked persons, including children, have been confined in prison-like compounds and kept within restraining physical spaces while being forced to carry out online fraud or gambling.
The Amnesty report – which is based on interviews with 423 victims of Cambodia’s scamming industry – documents what it calls abuses on a “mass scale” since 2022. It says thousands of migrant workers or trafficked persons, including children, have been confined in prison-like compounds and kept within restraining physical spaces while being forced to carry out online fraud or gambling.
