Laos let them go!

Reporters sans Frontières are protesting at the 15-year jail sentences imposed in Laos on journalists Thierry Falise and Vincent Reynaud and their translator Naw Karl Mua. The three were attempting to report from the Hmong area, from which the government has banned all journalists. See www.rsf.fr/article.php3?id_article=7430

9 July 2003

And they were freed - and deported - today according to BBC news.

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