Samut SakhonKhieo Lapchanh vanished the night before his asylum interview.
He is at least the third Lao dissident to disappear or die in Thailand since 2019.
A 2024 Human Rights Watch review found Thailand trading dissidents with neighbors in what it called a “swap mart.”
More than 130 UN rights experts urged governments last week to speed asylum protections for people at risk.
How each outlet framed it
- The Diplomat leans critical
- reconstructs path from 159K-follower activist to $8k bounty and pattern of Lao dissident disappearances in Thailand
Sources: The Diplomat