Book chapter
Somsanga's Secrets: Arbitrary Detention, Physical Abuse, and Suicide inside a Lao Drug Detention Center
Human Rights Watch, Oct 2011, 76 pp
01 Oct 2011
Abstract
This report examines conditions in the Somsanga Treatment and Rehabilitation Center, which has received a decade of international support from the US, the United Nations, and other donors. Detainees are held without due process, and many are locked in cells inside barbed wire compounds. Former detainees told Human Rights Watch that they had been held for periods of three months to more than a year. Police and guards are a constant presence, and those who try to escape may be brutally beaten. Tables, Figures, Appendixes.
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- Title
- Somsanga's Secrets: Arbitrary Detention, Physical Abuse, and Suicide inside a Lao Drug Detention Center
- Creators
- Joseph AmonBede SheppardAisling ReidyDanielle Haas
- Publication Details
- Human Rights Watch, Oct 2011, 76 pp
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Community Health and Prevention
- Identifiers
- 991021895684104721