A Christian family in Laos was expelled from their village for their faith and, in another province, a worship service was disrupted and members threatened with arrest.
A month after a Christian family in Salavan Province, Laos, lost their home and were expelled for their faith, officials in another province on Sunday disrupted the worship service of a house church and threatened to arrest them, according to a rights group.
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still out there late at night on the streets? reporter: there are thousands of protesters in independence square behind me. that is a man on the stage now speaking to them. there is also a separate area where we had all these clashes, which is about ten minutes away. they ve erected barricades there too. suzanne, i want to tell you one thing we ve learned from our reporting today, very serious allegations of torture by the police. we talked to one 17-year-old boy who says he was just watching the protests, he was dragged away by police, beaten very, very badly, stabbed in the thigh with a knife. his arm is broken. and we have some very disturbing video that has been circulating online of a man who was also stripped naked in detention behind police lines in this very, very cold weather and beaten by police. the interior ministry says that it is investigating that video and has issued an apology. but human rights watcher, we were also talking to today, said