The five Europeans that were being detained in a Laos jail for staging a public demonstration in the capital Vientiane, including Italian MEP Olivier Dupuis, have been charged with distributing propaganda and expelled from the country. The trial, which was held Friday morning, lasted three hours.
The five activists were accused according to article 59 of the criminal code of Laos, which states that "slanderous propagation against Lao People's Democratic Republic and distribution of slan...
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