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Laos: Minority Hmong may be held at abusive detention centre, rights watchdog says Authorities in Laos are locking up ethnic minority Hmong along with other "undesirables" in a detention centre where people face brutal beatings if they try to escape, according to a leading human rights group.
Human Rights Watch claims Lao officials use the Somsanga Treatment and Rehabilitation Centre in Vientiane as a "dumping ground" for those seen as socially undesirable. Along with perceived drug users, people with mental disabilities, thieves, homeless people and beggars, authorities have jailed ethnic Hmong at the facility, according to HRW.
In a report released October 11, HRW says there is evidence Hmong are being detained at the "bleak and abusive detention facility", which is targeted toward perceived drug users. People formerly held in Somsanga told HRW researchers they saw Hmong people detained, even though they did not appear to be drug users.
The Hmong minority group has faced persecution in Laos after members of the community backed the United States' anti-comm...
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