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Laos: Official moratorium on the death penalty – an opportunity ...
16 July 2008

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. Public Statement. AI Index number: ASA 26/001/2008. 16 July 2008. Official moratorium on the death penalty – an opportunity for Laos. ...

Document       ASA 26/001/2008

the wire, July 2008. Vol. 38, No. 6
1 July 2008

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 ...

Newsletter       NWS 21/006/2008

النشرة الإخبارية يوليو/تموز 2008
1 July 2008

Newsletter       NWS 21/006/2008

Thailand/Laos: Forcible return/fear for safety
25 June 2008

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 ...

Urgent Action       ASA 39/005/2008

Lao People's Democratic Republic: Thao Moua and Pa Fue Khang ...
1 June 2007

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 ...

Report       ASA 26/008/2007

Laos | Amnesty International
23 May 2007

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Laos: Further information on forcible return / arbitrary detention ...
28 March 2007

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 ...

Urgent Action       ASA 26/006/2007

Lao People's Democratic Republic: Hiding in the jungle - Hmong ...
23 March 2007

Thousands of ethnic Hmong women, men and children live in scattered groups in the Lao jungles, hiding from the authorities, particularly the military. Amnesty ...

Report       ASA 26/003/2007

Laos: Destitute jungle-dwellers living on run from military
23 March 2007

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. PRESS RELEASE. AI Index: ASA 26/004/2007 (Public). News Service No: 050. 23 March 2007. Embargo Date: 23 March 2007 00:01GMT. ...

Press Release       ASA 26/004/2007