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 Read more
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 Read more
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 Read more
‘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 Read more
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 Read more
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 Read more
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 Read more
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 Read more
Rights groups and the UN continue to press Laos where civic space remains ‘closed’ Published at 07.01.2021 Country Laos Category Latest Developments Tags: indigenous groups enforced disappearance restrictive law HRD detained minority groups Read more
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 Read more
Clampdown on expression online persists as Laos slips further down the press freedom rankings Published at 29.05.2020 Country Laos Category Latest Developments Tags: religious groups criminal defamation censorship HRD detained labour rights protest land rights Read more
Laos activist Od Sayavong still missing six months on, while critics continue to be silenced Published at 21.02.2020 Country Laos Category Latest Developments Tags: enforced disappearance women restrictive law negative court ruling HRD prosecuted criminal defamation land rights Read more
