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| 03.09.09 | USA: Attorney General orders ‘preliminary review’ into CIA detention cases – full investigation long overdue Amnesty International demands again a full investigation into the CIA secret detention cases, this time with the occasion of the publication of the CIA Inspector General’s review of CIA counterterrorism detention and interrogation “activities” which took place yesterday. read more | |
| 03.09.09 | Nepal: 'disappearances' law 'must meet international standards' Nepal 'disappearances' law 'must meet international standards' Prominent human rights organizations submitted a memorandum to the Government of Nepal on Sunday. In it, they requested that the latest draft Disappearances bill be amended to make it comply with international law and standards. read more | |
| 03.09.09 | Guatemala: Former military commissioner sentenced to 150 years for the disappearance of six indigenous people. The former military commissioner Coj Felipe Cusanero, accused of the crime of enforced disappearance of six people between 1982 and 1984 in Chimaltenango, was sentenced to 150 years of prison. The trial court in that department imposed him 25 years for each of the victims. Continue reading this... read more | |
| 31.08.09 | Egypt: Enforced disappearance of 16 Egyptian nationals Alkarama sent an urgent appeal on the 19th of August to the Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances asking it to intercede with the Egyptian authorities in the case of 16 Egyptian nationals who disappeared in Mansoura province between 2 and 26 July 2009, after being arrested by the... read more | |
| 31.08.09 | Spain: Enforced disappearances, a non-prescriptive crime Amnesty International calls for coherence from the Spanish Government in their legislative initiatives. The Spanish Government will deposit the ratification of the International Convention against Disappearances in the month of September, but the present draft bill on reform of the Penal Code does... read more | |
| 27.08.09 | Southern Philippines: Civilians face risk of enforced disappearances Hundreds of thousands of civilians "faced the risk of unlawful killings, enforced disappearances, torture, arbitrary arrests, displacement and burning and destruction of their homes," Amnesty International said in a report. read more | |
| 27.08.09 | Guatemala: restarted first trial for enforced disappearances Yesterday, August 26 resumed the oral and public debate from the first case brought to trial in Guatemala for the crime of forced disappearances during the internal armed conflict. read more | |
| 27.08.09 | Sri Lanka: Bishop sees little hope of missing priest being alive The bishop of Jaffna believes the chance that a priest who disappeared three years ago might still be alive is "remote." read more | |
| 25.08.09 | Honduras: IACHR reports possible disappearances On the 21st of August, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights released a report that shows a pattern of serious violations under the current government, possible disappearances being one of them. Continue reading the original report available in the link below. read more | |
| 25.08.09 | Namibia: Ya Nangoloh to Sue Swapo Paper The executive director of the National Society for Human Rights, Phil ya Nangoloh, is suing Swapo's mouthpiece, Namibia Today, for N$250 000 after he was called a "pathological liar". read more |