{"id":8716,"date":"2019-09-07T11:42:09","date_gmt":"2019-09-07T02:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/07\/thai-government-pressed-over-missing-lao-activist-od-sayavong"},"modified":"2019-09-07T11:42:09","modified_gmt":"2019-09-07T02:42:09","slug":"thai-government-pressed-over-missing-lao-activist-od-sayavong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=8716","title":{"rendered":"Thai government pressed over missing Lao activist Od Sayavong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Human Rights Watch calls for information on fate of 34-year-old amid a spate of disappearances of activists<\/p>\n<p>Rights groups in Thailand have urged the government to investigate the apparent enforced disappearance of Od Sayavong, a prominent pro-democracy activist from Laos who has been missing for almost two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The 34-year-old Laotian activist was last seen at his Bangkok home on 26 August, sparking fears for his safety in a region where there has been a spate of enforced disappearances of political activists.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/07\/thai-government-pressed-over-missing-lao-activist-od-sayavong\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human Rights Watch calls for information on fate of 34-year-old amid a spate of disappearances of activistsRights groups in Thailand have urged the government to investigate the apparent enforced disappearance of Od Sayavong, a prominent pro-democracy &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":479,"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":[559,41,727,93,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-asia-pacific","category-laos","category-thailand","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\/8716","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\/479"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8717,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8716\/revisions\/8717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}