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| 10.12.09 | El Salvador: New Habeas Corpus case resolved favourably by Supreme Court Press release from the organization Pro-búsqueda on the favourable decision of Supreme Court habeas corpus process presented by this organisation in favour of Maria de los Angeles Mejia Ortega (9 years) who disappeared in 1983 during the slaughter in the canton of Copapayo (Cuscatlan). Through this... read more | |
| 10.12.09 | Guatemala: Military sentenced to 53 years in prison for enforced disappearance The trial for the disappearance of eight people in El Jute, Chiquimula, ended with the sentence to 53 years and four months in prison against retired Col. Samayoa Marco Antonio Sanchez and three former military commissioners read more | |
| 10.12.09 | Colombia: Former governor of Sucre sentenced for forced disappearance, murder and conspiracy. The former governor of Sucre, Salvador Arana, was sentenced to highest punishment provided by the Colombian legal system, 40 years of imprisonment, for the enforced disappearance and murder of a former mayor and his ties to the paramilitaries. This sentence imposed by the Supreme Court the former... read more | |
| 07.12.09 | Philippines: High court holds PNP accountable for missing WB official The Supreme Court (SC) has held officials of the Philippine National Police (PNP) accountable for the disappearance of a World Bank consultant in 2007 and directed the Court of Appeals to closely monitor the result of the investigation being conducted by the said authorities in connection with the... read more | |
| 03.12.09 | Nepal: Envoys visiting Bardiya Nearly a dozen ambassadors based in Kathmandu are visiting Bardiya on December 8 in a joint effort to draw the attention toward human rights violations by state and then Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) during the conflict. read more | |
| 03.12.09 | Guinea: Evidence of new arrests, harassment and illegal detentions by security forces Guinea’s security forces are continuing to arrest and harass activists and others, following a massacre during a political protest on 28 September, Amnesty International found during a recent visit to Guinea. read more | |
| 03.12.09 | Kashmir: 2700 unmarked graves discovered In occupied Kashmir, 2,700 unmarked graves containing over 2,943 bodies across 55 villages in three districts, Bandipore,, Baramulla and Kupwara have been discovered. The Srinagar based human rights group, International People’s Tribunal on Human Rights and Justice for Kashmir (IPTJ) in its report... read more | |
| 23.11.09 | Supreme Court of Pakistan resumes hearings on enforced disappearances The Supreme Court in Pakistan has resumed hearings in disappearance cases. The hearings were put on a hold after the declaration of State of Emergency on the 3d of November 2007. read more | |
| 23.11.09 | UNWAD urges Lebanese authorities to reveal fate of prisoner The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has urged Lebanese authorities to investigate the disappearance of Syrian human rights activist Nawar Abboud. read more | |
| 05.11.09 | Lebanon: Ruling aids families of "Disappeared" A decision by Lebanese judicial authorities on November 4, is an encouraging first step toward recognizing the right of families of victims of enforced disappearances during the 1975-1990 war era to know what happened to them, five international human rights groups said today. read more |