AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. Public Statement. AI Index number: ASA 26/001/2008. 16 July 2008. Official moratorium on the death penalty – an opportunity for Laos. ...
1) State of denial: Europe's role in rendition and secret detention 2) Migrants attacked in South Africa 3) China's human rights record overshadows Olympic spectacle ...
The Thai authorities returned 837 Lao Hmong asylum-seekers to Laos on 22 June 2008, claiming that the group were going voluntarily. No independent monitors were ...
Thao Moua (pictured right) and Pa Fue Khang (left), both ethnic Hmong Lao nationals, are serving prison sentences of 12 and 15 years respectively following an apparently ...
On 8 March the Lao authorities publicly claimed to have "found" 21 girls and young women who have been missing since December 2005, but have not revealed their ...
Thousands of ethnic Hmong women, men and children live in scattered groups in the Lao jungles, hiding from the authorities, particularly the military. Amnesty ...