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Digital Rights
Attacks
Freedom of expression in Laos slid further down in 2014 with the adoption of a series of measures aimed at tightening control over the media or curbing growing criticism over social media against the ruling party and the government.
Laos Highlights
Laos
Attacks
On the second anniversary of the enforced disappearance of prominent Lao civil society leader Sombath Somphone, regional and international organisations condemn the government's ongoing refusal to provide any information regarding Sombath's fate or whereabouts.
Digital Rights
Censorship
Free Expression & the Law
Media restrictions in Laos are part of a wider pattern of suppression of information, lack of transparency in business dealings, prevention of protests and cultural and religious oversight by the government and the Lao People's Revolutionary Party.
Laos
The fate of prominent social activist Sombath Somphone, who was apprehended at a police checkpoint in Vientiane one year ago, is yet to be disclosed by members of the government of Laos, whose investigation into his enforced disappearance was inadequate.
Southeast Asian Press Alliance, Globe International Center
Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch
Southeast Asian Press Alliance
Laos
Censorship
11 December 2012
Southeast Asian Press Alliance
Laos
Censorship
12 April 2012
Reporters Without Borders
Freedom House
Reporters Without Borders
Southeast Asian Press Alliance
Southeast Asian Press Alliance
Reporters Without Borders
International Federation of Journalists
Committee to Protect Journalists
Reporters Without Borders
Committee to Protect Journalists
Reporters Without Borders
Reporters Without Borders
Committee to Protect Journalists
Reporters Without Borders
International Press Institute
Committee to Protect Journalists
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