Overview

• The London-based group documented 53 confirmed scam centers and dozens more suspected sites across Cambodia, including in Phnom Penh.
• Survivors, among them minors, describe punishments such as electric baton shocks, confinement in dark rooms and physical beatings.
• More than two-thirds of the compounds were either not investigated by police or continued operating after raids, Amnesty found.
• Criminal gangs led mainly by Chinese networks repurposed casinos and hotels into facilities housing up to 100,000 people in a $12.5 billion annual industry.
• Cambodian authorities have denied complicity and point to a task force led by Prime Minister Hun Manet, but no prosecutions for torture or trafficking have been confirmed.