News Archive
| 02.10.09 | Colombia: Extrajudicial executions accomplice convicted A Colombian judge sentenced to 17 years and three months imprisonment to a man who "recruited" young civilians who later were found dead in conflict zones and the army and rebels reported killed in combat. Continue reading this newsitem in Spanish. read more | |
| 29.09.09 | Indonesian: Pressure on Goverment to Investigate Activist Kidnappings The House of Representatives has agreed to push the government to act on past cases of activists who went missing during the tumultuous political period from 1997 to 1998, the last years in the long rule of former President Suharto. read more | |
| 28.09.09 | Convention: Spain and Germany ratify the convention. Both States, Spain and Germany have ratified the International Convention against Disappearances on the last 24th of September. The ratifications were deposited without reservations. read more | |
| 24.09.09 | Argentine: Prison for a pilot of the 'death flights' in Argentine Julio Alberto Poch, a former Navy aviator, was arrested last Tuesday (22 September) at the airport of Manises (Valencia) under charges for four criminal cases. 1,000 people were killed when thrown from planes between 1976 and 1983. Continue reading this news item in Spanish. read more | |
| 24.09.09 | Philippines: Jonas Burgos, one of the 200 missing Since Gloria Macapagal of the Philippines took office in 2001 there were more than 200 disappearances, including that of Jonas Burgos, the son of a local journalism icon who was kidnapped by gunmen linked to the army. Continue reading this article in Spanish. read more | |
| 24.09.09 | Sri Lanka: World Leaders Should Demand End to Detention Camps World leaders in New York for the United Nations General Assembly and the G-20 economic summit in Pittsburgh should call on the Sri Lankan government to immediately release more than 260,000 displaced persons illegally confined in detention camps, Human Rights Watch has said. read more | |
| 22.09.09 | Philippines: Mother braves uncertainty to find abducted son At 56, yesterday was Wilma Rodriguez’s first trip out of town. She has always considered herself as a homebody, going out only to attend mass or buy food and other needs. Now, however, she needs to leave the comforts of her home in Rodriguez, Rizal to find her missing son, Noriel. This article has... read more | |
| 22.09.09 | The Netherlands remember about the disappeared in Belarus On the 16th of September in a twin-city of Minsk, Eindhoven, an action took place commemorated to the 10th anniversary of the involuntary disappearances of Viktor Gonchar and Anatoly Krasovsky. The action consisted of ceremonial commemoration of the disappeared Belarusians, demonstration of a... read more |  |
| 15.09.09 | Belarus Free Theatre makes debut in Washington On the 10th anniversary since public leaders Anatol Krasouski and Viktar Hanchar’s disappearances, an American first night of the play based on real events is to take place in Davis Performing Arts Center, Washington, US. read more | |
| 14.09.09 | Kashmir: APDP demands setting up commission Srinagar, September 11 (KMS): In occupied Kashmir, the Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP), demanding setting up of an independent commission to probe the custodial disappearances, has vowed to continue to fight till whereabouts of the missing persons are made known. read more |