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Activists bid to halt Thai return of Hmong rebel to Laos

By AP News Wed, Mar 27, 2013 1:19PM UTC 0 Comment

BANGKOK (AP) — A U.S. admonition to Laos over its shaky human rights record spurred efforts Tuesday to halt the possible deportation from Thailand of a former ethnic leader to the authoritarian Southeast Asian nation. Rights activists said former ethnic Hmong rebel leader Moua Toua Ter is being held at an immigration detention center in...

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US challenges Laos over missing activist Sombath Somphone

By AP News Tue, Mar 26, 2013 10:55AM UTC 0 Comment

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is challenging Laos over the disappearance of a prominent social activist who went missing 100 days ago that has put a rare spotlight on an authoritarian nation’s murky governance and human rights record. The State Department also said Monday it is monitoring the case of former ethnic Hmong rebel leader...

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US: Laos obstructs probe for 3 missing men

By AP News Wed, Mar 20, 2013 10:54AM UTC 0 Comment

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. State Department says Lao authorities have obstructed embassy efforts to investigate the disappearance of three Laotian-Americans who went missing in southern Laos in January. A department official said Tuesday two embassy staff traveled March 6 to Savannakhet province to investigate reports that the men may have died in a car...

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China executes 4 foreigners over Mekong murders

By AP News Fri, Mar 01, 2013 5:31PM UTC 0 Comment

BEIJING (AP) — China executed four foreigners Friday for the killing of 13 Chinese sailors in an attack on the Mekong River, following a live nationwide broadcast showing them being led to their deaths that harkened back to the mass public execution rallies of past years. State broadcaster CCTV showed the four being led from...

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Burmese militia leader behind Mekong murders executed in China

By Patrick Boehler Fri, Mar 01, 2013 3:29PM UTC 0 Comment

Naw Kham pictured during his extradition from Laos to China in May of last year. He was executed today. Pic: AP.

Naw Kham, the Burmese militia leader sentenced to death in China for piracy and murder, was executed in China’s border province Yunnan on Friday afternoon. The 43-year-old ethnic Shan was executed by lethal injection along with three other co-defendants in the provincial capital Kunming, after pleading guilty and being sentenced to death on charges of...

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