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Laos: UN raises concerns about summary executions, enforced disappearance and deportation of activists
- Published at
- 23.01.2024
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- Laos
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- Latest Developments
Tags:
- religious groups
- minority groups
- hrd
- enforced disappearance
- surveillance
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Laos: Human rights defender shot at while activists in exile face arrest and attacks
- Published at
- 18.09.2023
- Country
- Laos
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- youth
- HRD detained
- attack on HRD
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Laos: Arrests for protest against potash mine while human rights defenders remain in jail
- Published at
- 02.05.2023
- Country
- Laos
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- religious groups
- protest
- enforced disappearance
- protestor(s) detained
- environmental rights
- land rights
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Calls for accountability for disappeared activist Sombath Somphone, release of political prisoners as repression of civic space persists in Laos
- Published at
- 20.12.2022
- Country
- Laos
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- enforced disappearance
- censorship
- land rights
- harassment
- intimidation
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‘Closed’ civic space shows Laos not taking annual human rights dialogues seriously
- Published at
- 18.07.2022
- Country
- Laos
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- enforced disappearance
- protest disruption
- religious groups
- minority groups
- censorship
- protestor(s) detained
- land rights
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Political dissident from Laos finds refuge as ethnic Hmong indigenous people remain at risk
- Published at
- 18.03.2022
- Country
- Laos
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- HRD detained
- indigenous groups
- minority groups
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Reprisals against Hmong, religious freedom violations and search for Sombath continues
- Published at
- 01.11.2021
- Country
- Laos
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- enforced disappearance
- indigenous groups
- refugees and migrants
- religious groups
- minority groups
- protest
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Arbitrary detention of Lao women activist, increased online surveillance, persecution of minorities
- Published at
- 06.08.2021
- Country
- Laos
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- censorship
- women
- religious groups
- minority groups
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Arbitrary detentions and attacks on Hmong in Laos as rubber-stamp elections held
- Published at
- 26.04.2021
- Country
- Laos
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- enforced disappearance
- indigenous groups
- religious groups
- minority groups
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Rights groups and the UN continue to press Laos where civic space remains ‘closed’
- Published at
- 07.01.2021
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- Laos
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- indigenous groups
- enforced disappearance
- restrictive law
- HRD detained
- minority groups
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Lao activist Muay in jail for nearly a year while still no justice for 2018 dam collapse
- Published at
- 02.09.2020
- Country
- Laos
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- torture/ill-treatment
- environmental rights
- land rights