Laos activist Anousa Luangsuphom shot in cafe attack

A market in the Laos capital, Vientiane. Independent civil society and media are severely restricted in the one-party Communist state. Photograph: Zoonar GmbH/Alamy

A prominent activist and critic of the government in Laos has been shot in an attack at a coffee shop in the capital, Vientiane.

Anousa “Jack” Luangsuphom, 25, who runs a Facebook page in which people share criticism of the government, was sitting in a cafe in Vientiane on 29 April when the attack happened.