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| 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 | |
| 24.08.09 | Kashmir: APDP refutes govt. figures of disappeared persons Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP) has strongly reacted to the statement by government in assembly session that 110 persons disappeared in valley and said that the government was largely indifferent to cases of enforced disappearances. read more | |
| 24.08.09 | Colombia: 210 thousand complaints for disappearances Last 21st of August the Justice and Peace Unit of the Attorney General of Colombia reported that since 2006 has so far received 210 thousand complaints for disappearances. Of these 210,000 cases 2,494 corpses have been recovered and 630 were returned to their families. Click on the link below to... read more | |
| 22.07.09 | Uganda should charge or release secretly detained persons As lawyers filed petitions for habeas corpus, Human Rights Watch called upon Ugandan authorities to charge or release secretly detained persons read more |