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Laos: Increased surveillance around ASEAN meeting, Myanmar activists deported and no progress around disappearances
Published at
26.09.2024
Country
Laos
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- surveillance
- minority groups
- transnational repression

Laos: Social media critic arrested for exposing bribery while land rights protesters detained
Published at
07.05.2024
Country
Laos
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- minority groups
- harassment
- protestor(s) detained
- land rights

Laos: UN raises concerns about summary executions, enforced disappearance and deportation of activists
Published at
23.01.2024
Country
Laos
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- religious groups
- minority groups
- hrd
- enforced disappearance
- surveillance

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

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

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

‘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

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

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

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

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