{"id":54812,"date":"2023-05-03T18:39:42","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T09:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/03\/laos-activist-anousa-luangsuphom-gunned-down-in-cafe-attack"},"modified":"2023-05-03T18:39:42","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T09:39:42","slug":"laos-activist-anousa-luangsuphom-gunned-down-in-cafe-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=54812","title":{"rendered":"Laos activist Anousa Luangsuphom gunned down in cafe attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rights groups call for urgent and independent investigation into killing of government critic<\/p>\n<p>A prominent activist and critic of the government in Laos has been shot dead in an attack at a coffee shop in the capital, Vientiane.<\/p>\n<p>Anousa \u201cJack\u201d Luangsuphom, 25, who runs a Facebook page where people share criticism of the government, was sitting in a cafe in Vientiane on 29 April when the attack happened.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/03\/laos-activist-anousa-luangsuphom-gunned-down-in-cafe-attack\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rights groups call for urgent and independent investigation into killing of government criticA prominent activist and critic of the government in Laos has been shot dead in an attack at a coffee shop in the capital, Vientiane.Anousa \u201cJack\u201d Luangsuphom,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":888,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,727,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-laos","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/888"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54812"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54828,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54812\/revisions\/54828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}