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Somsanga’s Secrets
Arbitrary Detention, Physical Abuse, and Suicide inside a Lao Drug Detention Center
Summary
Key Recommendations
Methodology
I. Somsanga
Center
International
Support
Building
Infrastructure
Support for
Activities in Somsanga
Monitoring
and Reporting on Conditions
II. Abuses
No Due
Process
Locked Up as
Treatment
Suicides at
Somsanga
Ill-Treatment
of Detainees
No Objective
Basis for Detentions
“Drug-Free”
Villages
Detaining
People Who Use Drugs Infrequently or Irregularly
Detaining
Other “Undesirable” People
III. Donors:
The Way Forward
IV.
Recommendations
To the Lao
Government
To UNODC,
Bilateral Donors, and International Organizations Providing Assistance to
Somsanga
To United
Nations Agencies
To the UN
Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, the Committee on the Rights of the Child,
the Special Rapporteur on Torture, and the Special Rapporteur on the Right to
Health
To the ASEAN
Inter-Governmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR)
Acknowledgments
Annex 1
Annex 2
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