Sombath Somphone
Commons · Question 77599 · Tabled 16 Sep 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office · Official record
Answered 15 Oct 2025
Question
Asked by Ruth Jones
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his counterparts in Laos on the disappearance of Sombath Somphone.
Answer
Answered by Seema Malhotra, 15 Oct 2025
The UK continues to raise the case of Sombath Somphone's disappearance with the Lao authorities, both bilaterally and through multilateral fora such as the UN Human Rights Council. Most recently, on 3 September 2025, the previous Minister for the Indo-Pac...