HANOI, June 28: Two foreign journalists arrested on June 4 in Laos have been accused of being complicit in murder, a source close to the case said on Saturday.

According to the source, independent Belgian journalist Thierry Falise and French cameraman and photographer Vincent Reynaud, may also be prosecuted with obstructing the work of security forces.

The journalists were arrested while reporting on the ethnic Hmong group, factions of whom are waging a separatist conflict against the communist authorities.—AFP

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