POLICE in Laos have detained a prominent development campaigner, a source close to the activist says.
Footage from closed circuit cameras revealed that Sombath Somphone, who went missing on Saturday in Vientiane, "was taken away by plainclothes policemen", according to a person familiar with the case who asked not to be named.
It was unclear why he was detained.
Laos officials were not immediately available to comment.
United States officials on Tuesday said diplomatic and aid agency representatives had been in contact with Sombath's wife, adding that they had "concerns for his well-being and safety".
"We have registered our concern with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Laos and encouraged them to make every effort to locate him and figure out what's happened here," State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told journalists.
Sombath won the 2005 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Community Leadership for his work in poverty reduction and sustainable development in one of South-East Asia's poorest countries.
A member of the activist's Participatory Development Training Centre (PADETC) said that Sombath's family was searching for the activist.
"I am still shocked and everybody here is praying about it," the aid worker said.
Laos is a one-party communist state which exerts total control over the media and does not tolerate criticism of its institutions.
Earlier this month authorities expelled the outspoken country director of Swiss charity Helvetas, Anne-Sophie Gindroz, for criticising the Laos government.
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