Laos: Further information on forcible return / arbitrary detention / torture / ill-treatment

Index Number: ASA 26/006/2007
Fecha de publicación: 28 marzo 2007
Categorías: Asia y Oceanía, Laos

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 current whereabouts. Six others remain unaccounted for. The 27 have reportedly been held incommunicado in deplorable conditions, ill-treated and possibly tortured.