The report highlights disappearances — both those carried out by criminal groups and forced disappearances involving members of the security forces.
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The government formed the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and another Commission to Investigate Enforced Disappearances (CIED) last year to hear complaints on war crimes and disappearances.
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Despite the uproar over the disappearances, President Enrique Pena Nieto praised Mexico&aposs navy and marines in a speech in another city in Tamaulipas, the same state where the disappearances occurred.
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There's been disappearances, so there's a lot lost on it.
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Three days later, authorities announced an end to the disappearances.
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DiNardo is not facing any counts related to the disappearances.
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Related: Hong Kong Bookstores Scrap Banned Books After Bookseller Disappearances
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The military has denied any part in the activists' disappearances.
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Very few outlets have reported on the rash of disappearances.
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The disappearances shocked people in Hong Kong and reverberated internationally.
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If so, detectives were no longer investigating a few disappearances.
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But forensic tests showed the bones long predated their disappearances.
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Such disappearances have a devastating impact on families and communities.
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Paulides has become the foremost expert in national park disappearances.
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The connection between some disappearances and berries cannot be denied.
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Well, in deaths, in injuries, in disappearances, and in incarcerations.
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Sarah's frequent disappearances have taken a toll on the family.
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I think it was my disappearances that people wondered about.
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The police eventually gave up on the investigations around both disappearances.
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The latest disappearances from Vietnam have further rattled Thais in exile.
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Georgie becomes one in a wave of child disappearances in town.
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Britain and the United States have expressed concern about the disappearances.
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Reporters interview the mothers on the anniversaries of their children's disappearances.
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That's a rate of about 10 deaths or disappearances a day.
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Police in the past have denied any involvement in the disappearances.
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Many international bodies issued their concerns regarding enforced disappearances in Balochistan.
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The girls' disappearances were as strikingly similar as they were terrifying.
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Domestically, the disappearances and forced detentions without due process are common.
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The government has refused to investigate their role in the disappearances.
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The government has been implicated in enforced disappearances of opposition supporters.
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We need to figure out what led up to their disappearances.
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Meanwhile, the disappearances continue: 2011,22011 during this administration so far since Dec.
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Church said the library is using the disappearances as a learning opportunity.
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No public criticism of the government is allowed, and forced disappearances occur.
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A two-year investigation into the disappearances ended without charges in 2014.
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I'm interested in how the disappearances of these lives connects to the
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Sweden and the United States have also expressed concern at the disappearances.
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Do these disappearances represent the loss of rare, beloved plants and birds?
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Here's a short list of aviation's most vexing disappearances and unexplained crashes.
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The period was marked by widespread abuses, extrajudicial killings, disappearances and torture.
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The Rajapaksas' watch also featured many forced disappearances and violence against journalists.
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Those included killings, disappearances, torture and gang rape of alleged political opponents.
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Kataib Hezbollah, too, is responsible for hundreds of disappearances and extrajudicial killings.
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Rape, torture, and forced disappearances were also reported during the military crackdown.
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Still, the timing of the activists' disappearances raised suspicion, Amnesty's Bequelin said.
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Last year, Pakistan's Commission on Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances "received nearly 300 cases of alleged enforced disappearances from August to October 2017, by far the largest number in a three month period in recent years," according to the commission.
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Disappearances in Mexico are rarely solved because corruption complicates investigations and encourages impunity.
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Officials said at the time they suspected the disappearances were related and suspicious.
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Altogether, court documents link the three men to seven other murders or disappearances.
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Sally didn't let herself think about the strange disappearances or the gruesome death.
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The recent disappearances are substantial even by the standards of this long tradition.
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"Enforced disappearances are being incorporated as part of law enforcement techniques," Mureithi says.
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At first glance, some of these administrative documents seemed irrelevant to forced disappearances.
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A military officer, however, dismissed any idea of army involvement in the disappearances.
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They have not been found, and foul play is suspected in their disappearances.
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During their visits, they refused to publicly discuss the details of their disappearances.
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They've documented instances of enforced disappearances, arbitrary detentions, and extrajudicial executions of civilians.
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The disappearances led to a joint FBI and CIA investigation about what happened.
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Those hospitalizations, and the disappearances, have put a dent in Ms. Santana's finances.
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Several factors account for the disappearances, but perhaps none more so than destitution.
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U.N. reports warn of frequent kidnappings, forced disappearances and assassinations by unknown assailants.
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The opposition accuses government troops of arbitrary arrests, disappearances and extra-judicial killings.
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The state's plane crashes and flat-out disappearances are the stuff of legend.
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Police called the disappearances suspicious, and a community search and Facebook page were launched.
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So far, there has been no evidence linking Christensen to other disappearances or murders.
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Prosecutors used Craver and Hensley's subsequent disappearances to strengthen their circumstantial case against Felix.
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But these disappearances come amid a wider move to restrict booksellers in Hong Kong.
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Feathered Changes, Serpent Disappearances is on view from April 14 to July 30, 2016.
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More than 153 percent of these families have received records about their relatives' disappearances.
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Ivanka Trump's brand declined to comment on the allegations or the arrest and disappearances.
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The European Union, United States and Britain have repeatedly expressed concern over these disappearances.
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Their mysterious disappearances had sparked fears they may have been taken by Chinese agents.
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Here are 14 cases of unsolved disappearances and missing people that captivated the world.
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There is no hiding the message of the girls' disappearances behind a rosy scrim.
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Chechnya had about 3,000 to 5,000 unresolved disappearances from 2000 to 2005 or so.
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The opposition also accuses government troops of arbitrary arrests, disappearances and extra-judicial killings.
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A group of opposition MPs called the disappearances "highly concerning" in a parliamentary resolution.
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Nonsensical, inexplicable disappearances and deaths leave you shattered and scared and angry and confused.
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Suspicions that the government is behind the disappearances of people are common in Mexico.
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It was a somber reminder of the disappearances of Mr. Surachai and other dissidents.
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The disappearances have added to a climate of fear in the South Asian country.
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While the lyrics muse over farewells and disappearances, the song is anything but shy.
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During his trial, he said he knew nothing of illegal abductions and forced disappearances.
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Most major political parties maintain that enforced disappearances have no place in the country.
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The disappearances of women of color, meanwhile, don't always get the attention they deserve.
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But the disappearances have real consequences for the rest of the world as well.
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Drug cartels have been behind the disappearances of people in the region, according to Winckler.
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If their remains are located, Ream could face charges related to their disappearances, Dwyer said.
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Here are a handful of the best historical disappearances contained in the Charley Project's archives.
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At the height of drug violence, the country's northern states used hashtags to publicize disappearances.
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The disappearances sparked widespread international condemnation of the state of law and order in Mexico.
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But the disappearances coincide with weird phenomena: animals dropping dead, lights wildly flickering and flashing.
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At the time, authorities explained the disappearances by saying the victims had fled the country.
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It explained that records of the disappearances were all mysteriously burned in a bush fire.
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However, other U.N. human rights experts have visited since then including this year on disappearances.
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Here are six other cases of plane disappearances and disasters, some of which remain unsolved.
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Detectives claim foul play is suspected in the disappearances of the mother and her daughter.
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Political opponents and journalists remain largely vulnerable, with reports of disappearances, according to Amnesty International.
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The disappearances among the five victims named so far stretch back as far as 2012.
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Despite the disappearances and the attacks, not all the left-wing activists are giving up.
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Even immigrants who are in the country lawfully struggle to bring attention to the disappearances.
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Investigations are under way into three other disappearances, including two girls aged six and eight.
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Later governments have documented 75,000 cases of torture, illegal detention and disappearances in those years.
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Police were accused of failing to investigate the disappearances properly when they were first reported.
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The public pressure helped lead to a new law, enacted this month, to combat disappearances.
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Colombian prosecutors are investigating at least 100 disappearances from a prison between 1999 and 2001.
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Government detention accounts for around 90 percent of the disappearances tallied by the Syrian Network.
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The Avengers became known as enforcers for Mr. Hifter, widely blamed for disappearances and killings.
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The police have been under enormous pressure to find those responsible for the recent disappearances.
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Both the government and rebel rarmed groups are blamed by rights groups for forced disappearances.
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Several elements of the disappearances, which occurred last June, have piqued widespread interest in Britain.
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He spoke of the hundreds of disappearances that have occurred since Sisi came to power.
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Several disappearances from public view in the past fueled rumors he is in declining health.
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PTM campaigns against alleged extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances of Pashtuns and other ethic minorities.
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In order to help preserve her community, she has to unravel the mystery behind the disappearances.
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It said most of the cases involved forced disappearances, and 19 of the men remain missing.
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Icelandic authorities searched for him for a few weeks, but disappearances are quite common in Iceland.
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The U.N. says there are strong indications a federal security force was responsible for the disappearances.
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It says a local human rights organization believes there have been at least 40 such disappearances.
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Its activists complain of oppressive curfews and checkpoints, and also decry extra-judicial killings and disappearances.
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The prime minister's office and the country's diplomatic agency have said the disappearances are being investigated.
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Just last month, the council voted to open an investigation into killings and disappearances in Venezuela.
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This has lead witnesses and the rights group to believe security forces were behind the disappearances.
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Authorities including in the European Union and the United States have expressed concerns over the disappearances.
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Related: Surviving the Narco-Blockades of Mexico's Jalisco State Enforced disappearances have also become increasingly common.
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The government says it was not behind the disappearances and denies that security forces were involved.
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Many have assumed that the Communist Party's displeasure with the firm's output explains the mysterious disappearances.
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He'd just announced he's offering $200k for information that helps solve the mystery of their disappearances.
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The Kettering Incident takes emotional cues from these disappearances, and the effects they have on families.
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The government says it was not behind the disappearances, and denies that security forces were involved.
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That same year, reporter Allan Eckert covered various planes disappearances, including Flight 19, for American Legion.
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The OHCHR seems to assume that security forces are engaged in killings and disappearances with impunity.
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He was subsequently blamed by the police for the deaths and disappearances of over 22 children.
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The media also remembers the shootings, the disappearances, and the attacks with machine guns and grenades.
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Similar disappearances in Chihuahua and Guerrero have also been brought to the attention of international bodies.
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What I was trying for was a spiritual cleansing for myself after covering the forced disappearances.
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The government reported 351 disappearances in the municipality of Cuauhtémoc which includes much of the mountains.
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The unsolved mystery has added Flight 21999 to aviation history's most vexing disappearances and unexplained crashes.
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Suspicious deaths and disappearances Kagame went on to win the election with 93% of the vote.
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Related: Hong Kong Bookstores Scrap Banned Books After Bookseller Disappearances The disappearances have stoked fears of mainland Chinese authorities using shadowy tactics that erode the "one country, two systems" formula under which Hong Kong was returned to China in 1997 after 150 years of British rule.
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The office said Friday that "there have been complaints alleging the participation of marines" in the disappearances.
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Among myriad abuses, it alleged large-scale "enforced disappearances" of village elders and religious leaders in Maungdaw.
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There's also the suggestion that there's something unnatural about their disappearances — not who kidnapped them, but when.
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He could have stressed more about human rights, particularly about some of the rights violations, including disappearances.
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In that time, there have been more than 200,000 murders and a minimum of 35,000 forced disappearances.
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The military has staunchly denied playing a role in any enforced disappearances, as has the civilian government.
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This, along with extra-judicial killings, torture and disappearances, has eroded faith in the rule of law.
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If the commission finds the military responsible for the disappearances, as expected, the ruling could become binding.
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Tamaulipas has for years suffered high levels of murders and disappearances amid clashes between violent criminal gangs.
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Mr. Peña Nieto's approval ratings plummeted after the disappearances and a political scandal that involved his wife.
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Police responded to the violence with a massive crackdown, and detentions or disappearances ranged into the thousands.
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Investigations are under way into three other disappearances, including those of two girls aged 6 and 8.
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And the disappearances inflict a lasting torture on enemies — robbing them of even the finality of death.
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In this season, two troubled sisters move to a town next to a neighborhood plagued by disappearances.
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The report detailed allegations of torture, disappearances and sexual violence against both Indian troops and militant groups.
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At the same time, homicides and disappearances skyrocketed, as did claims of abuses by the security forces.
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Rexburg police have said they are investigating whether the woman's death is connected to the children's disappearances.
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Three other disappearances since late 20153 also involve victims who challenged the prevalent Malaysian view of Islam.
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The disappearances listed are many, but you rarely read about a parrot reunited with its desperate owner.
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For years, Tamaulipas has suffered high levels of murders and disappearances amid clashes between violent criminal gangs.
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The pressure can then escalate into violence in the form of beatings, torture, disappearances, or even killings.
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That the team was investigating a wave of disappearances when it was targeted, drives home the point.
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Starting in the second half of last year ... we started to identify a large amount of disappearances.
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Before his arrest, Titiev led a team that reported disappearances, torture, and punitive house burnings in Chechnya.
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There were other mysterious disappearances, such as the little girl whom a nun had pushed down the stairs.
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The PTM, which has two seats in parliament, has accused of authorities of extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances.
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And it wasn't just from one country: There were mysterious disappearances in Costa Rica, the United States, Australia.
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Advocates say the disappearances aren't simply a matter of the police targeting a mosque with a problematic past.
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Since then it has recorded 25 murders, 15 disappearances and 122 other crimes, including attempted abductions and exhumations.
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The case has become a political Rorschach test in a divided country where "disappearances" have a grim history.
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Mysterious disappearances, creepy mansions, and characters trapped in locations far from home are all standard horror movie tropes.
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Shortly after their disappearances, blasphemy allegations against them appeared on social media and in a complaint to police.
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Former students continued speaking out with stories of abusive administrators, beatings, killings and the disappearances of other students.
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The BBC caused an uproar when it aired a short documentary on torture and forced disappearances in Egypt.
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But before long, a series of massacres, mass disappearances and corruption scandals dashed Peña Nieto's carefully crafted image.
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Tepochica is on the outskirts of Iguala, a city notorious for the 2014 disappearances of 43 student teachers.
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This scenario allows the leaders to bypass the echoes of condemnation that follow brazen assassinations and mass disappearances.
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In fact, it's kind of a regular thing in Derry – every few decades, there's another rash of disappearances.
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An infant's delight at a parent playing peek-a-boo suggests the basic pleasure of disappearances and revelations.
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Changes will go into effect by 2021 The rules announced this week are designed to prevent similar disappearances.
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The report said observers had made links between women's disappearances and murders and trafficking by organized criminal groups.
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The most recent incidents of enforced disappearances are abductions of Baloch women and children from Quetta and Karachi.
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His regime is remembered for its summary executions, torture, rape, enforced disappearances, censorship, electoral fraud and epic corruption.
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The commission documented the use of torture, deliberate starvation, forced labour, disappearances of political prisoners, rape and executions.
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United Nations monitors have also received reports of enforced disappearances and torture by Ukraine's security services, he said.
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These campaigns have led to an exponential growth of "enforced disappearances," extrajudicial killings and ethnic profiling of Pashtuns.
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We have had reports of a lot of disappearances of refugee children who have fled to other countries.
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He said that they would take their gripes to the prison "commander" who might order detentions or disappearances.
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She turns into a skeptic, working for a government agency that investigates claims of disappearances for insurance reasons.
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Amnesty International has estimated that there have been up to 100,000 disappearances in Sri Lanka since the 1970s.
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Earlier this year it said it would allow the United Nations to review reports on cases of disappearances.
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Without an end to torture, disappearances and arbitrary arrests, they said, they would remain wary of going back.
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Their disappearances implicate national security because they involve fighting age, weapons-trained recruits who are demonstrated flight risks.
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If true, would be the latest in a series of executions, purges and disappearances under its young leader.
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Police launched an investigation — dubbed Project Houston — in 2012 to look into the disappearances of Navaratnam, Faizi and Kayhan.
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The Bangladesh government has long been criticized for its human rights abuses, including forced disappearances and politically motivated arrests.
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Police have arrested three men on suspicion of conspiracy and murder in the 2016 disappearances of two California teenagers.
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The true death toll, obscured by forced disappearances and bodies hidden away in mass graves, is likely far worse.
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The abuses included extrajudicial killings of civilians, forced disappearances of detainees, and attacks on healthcare facilities that treat insurgents.
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Police told Fox that the man could be involved in the disappearances of several other women, along with Spierer.
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Q. What effect do you think the publishers' disappearances will have on press freedoms and politics in Hong Kong?
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A truth commission appointed by the UN spent eight months investigating claims of massacres, forced disappearances, rapes and torture.
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Interior Minister Nisar Ali Khan was quoted last week as saying the government was not responsible for the disappearances.
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Between apparitions, disappearances, and disembodied sounds, these tales prove that no town is without its share of eerie history.
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Titiev, 60, leads a team that has reported disappearances, torture, and punitive house burnings in the majority-Muslim republic.
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Speaking with KUSA before the bodies were found, Chris said their house had been scarred by the apparent disappearances.
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The U.N. experts include those on human rights defenders, enforced disappearances, freedom of opinion, and the right to privacy.
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But he's also under intense criticism for authoritarian rule that involved excessive military power, extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances.
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With the disappearances, pro-democracy activists in the city say that Chinese authorities are riding roughshod over the agreement.
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Police launced an investigation — dubbed Project Houston — in 2012 to look into the disappearances of Navaratnam, Faizi and Kayhan.
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The disappearances were reported Monday afternoon some 12 hours after Shanann returned home, to Frederick, from a business trip.
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Shortly after the activists' disappearances, blasphemy allegations against them appeared on social media and in a complaint to police.
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The Highway of Tears and the disappearances of the indigenous women have become a political scandal in British Columbia.
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Human rights groups accuse the security officials of crushing dissent and security officials of extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances.
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Some of the most frightening reports had to do with the disappearances of Tibetan leaders in Sichuan and Qinghai.
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A number of governments have expressed concern about the disappearances, which some diplomats fear were abductions by Chinese agents.
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Until recently, the disappearances were largely ignored by a government neither willing nor capable of effectively confronting the atrocities.
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Yet a decade on from his brothers' disappearances, Trujillo has found nothing: no remains, no trace, and no culprits.
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In 2016, Caster co-founded Safeguard Defenders, a human rights NGO that's been advocating for victims and tracking disappearances.
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In March 1463, Glenn attended a community meeting to tell her fellow residents about the disappearances in their midst.
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Vallow repeatedly lied to police and asked others to lie as detectives investigated their disappearances, according to court documents.
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The feeling of being duped was familiar; during my childhood, disappearances of entire scenes were discussed with quiet outrage.
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Prosecutors had filed lesser charges against him this week to put him in jail while they investigated the disappearances.
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Officials have been methodically interviewing killers and victims, eliciting testimony into the deaths and disappearances of hundreds of people.
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And such disappearances have some become so commonplace in Mexico that many other cases are all but an afterthought.
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Disappearances plague the rich tourists; what they don't know is that the poor are imprisoning and then cannibalizing them.
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Officials have been methodically interviewing killers and victims, eliciting testimony into the deaths and disappearances of hundreds of people.
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Despite its small size, Guatemala has the second-highest number of disappearances from war in Latin America, after Colombia.
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Activists say the tally of missing people in Mexico is far higher than official numbers, because many disappearances go unreported.
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The federal government says it is working on laws and helping states to improve technical methods of dealing with disappearances.
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The family thinks the police were involved in the disappearances and that explains the state government&aposs failure to act.
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In sum: What we have is a series of suspiciously timed disappearances, all involving employees at the same publishing house.
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Now, officials say the man has a lengthy criminal history and may be behind the disappearances of several other women.
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Metwally, a prominent rights lawyer who focused on the issue of forced disappearances, was himself arrested in secret on Sept.
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If Kirk had inappropriate relationships with his students, it's possible that he is a strong suspect in the two disappearances.
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Arthur Ream told the Detroit Free Press in a jailhouse interview that he had nothing to do with their disappearances.
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Public disquiet over disappearances has steadily grown, even though Egyptians have become somewhat inured to daily reports of new detentions.
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To this day, no Guatemalan military or police official has been tried or sentenced for the disappearances in that case.
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Timeline of disappearances Finocchiaro and the three others went missing over several days last week within miles of each other.
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The families say they have not received any information since the disappearances, some of them more than a decade ago.
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An embassy spokesman in Beijing added in a statement that Britain was "deeply concerned" by reports of disappearances and detentions.
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Rights groups say out of hundreds of cases of "forced disappearances" many have reappeared in prisons days or months later.
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Most of the disappeared are liberal activists or Islamists, but the reasons for some disappearances are not at all clear.
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The strike got the attention of the world, and the issue of enforced disappearances in Balochistan also got recognition internationally.
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In September of 2014, 43 students went missing in one of the most notorious cases of forced disappearances in Mexico.
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Critics of the new system and former detainees say it gives arbitrary detention a legal gloss and normalizes enforced disappearances.
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And in the framework of international law, the study argues, the killings, forced disappearances and torture constitute crimes against humanity.
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It also described recent changes designed to reduce abuses, including proposed laws and protocols to prevent torture and investigate disappearances.
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The threat of violence is now routine for many Mexicans; the news here is filled with beheadings, mutilations, and disappearances.
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Chinese authorities have not made any substantial statements explaining their role in the disappearances or the fate of the men.
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This time, the disappearances were carried out by organized crime as it battled for territory in the lucrative drug trade.
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Her investigations indicated that the disappearances appeared linked to drug debts, feuds, or ransom demands made to family members outside.
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Since 2009, the government has decimated the opposition with politically motivated lawsuits and arrests, and even extrajudicial disappearances and murders.
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Disappearances, extrajudicial killings, torture, intimidation — and in the vast majority of cases, no one has ever been brought to justice.
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The anxious father of two young girls, he recounts a tragic family history of deaths and disappearances, overdoses and relapses.
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In that time, their mother re-married and fled to Hawaii with her husband once police began investigating the disappearances.
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"Very few perpetrators have been held accountable for these and other killings and disappearances," Pranom told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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Among those police actions, Amnesty International has found countless cases of arbitrary arrests, disappearances, and bloody violations of human rights.
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He noted that the Sirisena government passed a law to set up a permanent office last August to investigate disappearances.
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Six of the veterans alerted were found safe within a day or two after local media reported on their disappearances.
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In truth, there is no surge in disappearances; reports of missing children here have actually declined over the past year.
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Many of the girls and boys are runaways or foster children whose disappearances rarely set off a real Amber Alert.
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Some of these crimes predate Donald Trump's presidency, but Wyden held the current administration accountable for not investigating these disappearances.
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And the fact that the head of an organization that flags international disappearances has now disappeared himself is … pretty weird.
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Rights groups and opposition groups claim security forces regularly employ torture tactics in custody and carry out forced disappearances of citizens.
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Its protests against alleged extrajudicial killings, arbitrary detention and "disappearances" of young Pashtun men have drawn widespread support across the country.
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She says she used to spend her time attending to cases of beatings, murders, and disappearances related to the coca conflict.
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In 2015, two war crimes commissions were established - one to probe enforced disappearances and the other to investigate other serious abuses.
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At the time of their disappearances, Coles was three months pregnant and Ochoa-Uriostegui was nine months pregnant, according to police.
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Baptiste is trying to figure out the mystery behind not one, but two missing girls, and the connection between their disappearances.
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Navaratnam, Faizi, and Kayhan's disappearances from the Gay Village were a part of a 2012 Toronto police investigation called Project Houston.
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During those 14 years, perceived opponents of Marcos were subjected to numerous human right violations, including imprisonment, forced disappearances and torture.
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Here's what we know about the mysterious disappearances and the investigation that has consumed this suburban community and riveted the nation.
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Both Thomas and Brazell were neighbors of the suspect in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bushwick at the time of their disappearances.
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Even as the numbers confirmed killed waned slightly this year, diplomats said that UN investigators had documented an uptick in disappearances.
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Police noticed a string of strange disappearances over the past year and identified what could be a clandestine graveyard, Santos added.
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Beckett had a reputation for shunning biographers, but Bair found him obliging, if prone to mysterious disappearances and flashes of pique.
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During the 14 years, perceived opponents of Marcos were subjected to numerous human rights violations, including imprisonment, forced disappearances and torture.
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The French warrants bring charges including collusion in torture, forced disappearances, crimes against humanity and war crimes against the Syrian officials.
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Nearly 3,400 people have been reported missing in the state, so it is among the worst in the country for disappearances.
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Police and National Security agents routinely use torture and enforced disappearances against criminal suspects and political opponents alike with near impunity.
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In it, she sent Riffenburg an old Google Earth photo of her property taken from around the time of the disappearances.
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The experts said arbitrary arrests and detentions, enforced disappearances, and torture "continue to be committed by all parties to the conflict."
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Chinese authorities have declined to clarify key details of the disappearances but said law enforcement officials would never do anything illegal.
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Titiev, 60, leads a team that has reported disappearances, torture, and punitive house burnings in the majority-Muslim Russian internal republic.
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Chechnya has faced international outcry amidst reports of human rights abuses including torture, unlawful arrest and detentions, disappearances and extrajudicial killings.
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General Arellano was charged in 1999 in connection with 18 disappearances and the next year with "qualified murder" in four deaths.
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Despite the publicity, however, the circumstances surrounding the disappearances of a dozen Westerners captured by the Khmer Rouge have remained murky.
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Thirteen years later, a retired traffic engineer named Tom Mahood, who specializes in tracking desert disappearances and U.F.O.s, uncovered their remains.
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The dramatic disappearances two years ago of Hong Kong booksellers who sold gossipy potboilers about China's political elite heightened those worries.
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Scientists have attributed these many disappearances to rapid and severe weather changes, shallow waters, and methane gas eruptions in the seafloor.
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A number of women and women's groups report kidnappings, detentions, disappearances and other human rights violations by armed actors in Syria.
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The wave of disappearances began around the time that Thai junta leader Prayuth Chan-ocha visited Laos in December, activists say.
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According to statements to U.N. investigators, the disappearances typically occur at night while the victims are walking along or driving on roads.
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Authorities would not immediately say if the boys&apos bodies have been found or how the four were linked to the disappearances.
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It is a town rocked by economic collapse, suicide, endless murder, bizarre disappearances that often result in possible homicide, and evil dogs.
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The disappearances apparently expose some deeper ills in the city of Winden, and strains the relationships of four families that live there.
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In addition to deaths, human rights groups have documented 428 injuries and more than 100 arrests or disappearances since the protests began.
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New People's Army rebels were using the city as a testing ground for urban guerrilla warfare; assassinations, bombings and disappearances were common.
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These included arbitrary arrests, enforced disappearances, torture and the extrajudicial killings of thousands of Boko Haram suspects, according to the Amnesty report.
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At two other small, independent bookshops visited by Reuters; Insiders Books and Best Reading Bookstores, staff refused to comment about the disappearances.
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Residents in Northern Sinai have long reported arbitrary arrests, enforced disappearances, torture, and extrajudicial killings by Egyptian military and Interior Ministry forces.
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This included work on disappearances and torture, the rights of indigenous people, protecting activists and journalists, and access to justice, Zeid said.
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On Tuesday, in one of many now-eerie portents in his TV interviews, Chris said the apparent disappearances had scarred their home.
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The Associated Press on Saturday obtained the text of Iran's filing to the United Nations' Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances.
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Inside China's secret prisons China is increasingly cracking down on human rights lawyers as reports of torture, disappearances and forced confessions emerge.
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The Dhaka-based Odhikar group has highlighted a worrying spate of what it called "enforced disappearances" of opposition leaders, students and activists.
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Its violent crime rate, while the source of horrific massacres and mass disappearances, is lower than those of Venezuela, Brazil, or Colombia.
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Advocates say the unsolved deaths and disappearances often involved marginalized women and reflect a lack of concern by Canadian authorities and leaders.
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The government of Abdel Fattah al Sisi engages in "torture, enforced disappearances and likely extrajudicial executions," according to Human Rights Watch. 903.
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As an acknowledged expert on Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal, Ms. Thapa wrote numerous reports regarding atrocities, disappearances and travesties of justice.
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"Me and many others believe this because of the army's long history of involvement in forced disappearances and extrajudicial killings," García says.
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In 2015, his friend, the human rights activist Sabeen Mahmud, held an event on the disappearances at her community space in Karachi.
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His 2013 exhibit about extrajudicial disappearances of government opponents was shut down by the police minutes before the show was to open.
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Those included killings, disappearances, torture and gang rape of alleged political opponents, and that violence was likely to spike as polls approached.
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Note to Teacher: The articles linked below contain statistics and detailed information about violence, sexual abuse and disappearances of Native American women.
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Some victims' families wondered why the deaths and disappearances of their own mothers, sisters and nieces had not sparked a similar outcry.
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In a statement, the Collier County Sheriff's Office said it "continues to be committed" to investigating the disappearances of Williams and Santos.
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Previous disappearances of Chinese billionaires have generated turmoil in Chinese stock markets, which are closed this week for the Lunar New Year.
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Corrupt naval Marines carrying Sig Sauers are said to be behind scores of disappearances in Nuevo Laredo, a Los Zetas cartel stronghold.
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Refugees interviewed in Lebanon said that without an end to systemic torture, disappearances and arbitrary arrests, they would resist resettlement or deportation.
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State authorities are responsible for extrajudicial killings, disappearances of hundreds of civilians and the detention of tens of thousands of political prisoners.
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The OMP will have investigative powers and will probe people who went missing in the conflict and political unrest including "enforced" disappearances.
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When 12 residents of a tight-knit village go missing one after another, the murky details surrounding their disappearances leads to delirium.
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Only after ProPublica's report did the families learn about the link between the DEA operation and the disappearances of their loved ones.
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Besides the disappearances, the Chinese government owns the city's biggest bookstore companies, and they stock very few if any of the banned books.
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It said the authorities had resorted to "extralegal measures" such as enforced disappearances and strict house arrests to prevent criticism of the government.
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Toronto police have been criticized by some in the gay community for taking years to solve disappearances dating back to at least 2010.
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The country had its first conviction for forced civil war disappearances in 2009, sentencing a former military commissioner to 150 years in prison.
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China's Foreign Ministry declined to comment on the disappearances, but has said its law enforcement officials would never do anything illegal, especially overseas.
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The rights groups presented a dossier to prosecutors Monday documenting alleged slayings, torture, rapes and forced disappearances involving 121 victims during 2008-2010.
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Its authoritarian conduct is matched on the other side of the civil war, where human rights groups have cataloged widespread detention and disappearances.
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Brazil's National Truth Commision recorded 45 deaths or disappearances during Ustra's four years running the unit, as well as 502 cases of torture.
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Disappearances have become increasingly common across Jalisco in recent years, although it is unusual for such large groups to be abducted en masse.
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The U.S. State Department's April human rights report describes a litany of abuses including disappearances, systemic torture, arbitrary arrests and violence against journalists.
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Lotfy, of the Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms, points to 544 cases of disappearances his organization documented in the past eight months.
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Heavy items could fall and injure someone, a fire could start suddenly, and kids' disappearances often lead their parents to report them missing.
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Some of the town's older residents, including Mikkel's grandmother, mutter about how the new disappearances recall older ones from when they were younger.
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Four of the seven state policemen arrested in connection with the recent disappearances in Veracruz had failed tests of their fitness for duty.
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The Human Rights Watch report details disappearances and extensive use of torture, including deprivation of sleep, water and food, as well as beatings.
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Fear and paranoia The disappearances and arrests have certainly struck fear into the heart of the small Chinese dissident exile community in Thailand.
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The city has been unnerved over the past year by the disappearances of five booksellers who specialized in works critical of Chinese leaders.
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A Truth and Reconciliation Commission to look into war crimes, and another commission to investigate disappearances, have together received more than 50,000 complaints.
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Human disappearances have been happening for centuries, leaving the people around them and many future generations grappling with questions of what, exactly, happened.
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A string of deaths and disappearances in a northerly and remote part of Canada's British Columbia province may be linked, police have said.
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Appearing in English for the first time, this cult classic, published in 1995, addresses political disappearances in Turkey through a magical-realist lens.
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A small Anatolian village is thrown into confusion by the mysterious disappearances, sixteen years apart, of a barber and of a young girl.
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Several soldiers were present the night of the disappearances in Guerrero State, according to international experts asked to help determine the students' fate.
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In December, as one of his first acts in office, López Obrador created a truth-and-justice commission to investigate the Ayotzinapa disappearances.
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Woody: Two gangs appear to be behind the killings and disappearances you documented in Guadalajara: the Jalisco New Generation cartel and Nueva Plaza.
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AP says that the large number of deaths and disappearances can likely be partially attributed to risks from drug trafficking and gang violence.
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About 300 people marched through Nairobi on July 4 to protest the men's disappearances, and demanded that the interior minister, Joseph Nkaissery, resign.
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UN rights investigators and independent activists have accused government forces of widespread violations, including forced disappearances, and of orchestrating a campaign of terror.
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He verifies that those who report disappearances are close family members of the missing, and that the details of the stories are consistent.
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But arguably the most notorious example of impunity in recent years involves the still unsolved disappearances of 43 students from Ayotzinapa in 2014.
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Other studies have found that sightings of raccoons, opossums, and bobcats have nearly stopped, with the snakes the prime suspect in their disappearances.
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The spate of disappearances and attempted abductions comes at a time of growing concern over all kinds of violence against women in Jalisco.
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Netflix has planned 12 new episodes charting unexplained disappearances, traumatic experiences, tragic deaths, and more — you know, everything you loved about the original.
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When the mysterious disappearances began, Rule obtained a book contract to investigate them, eventually coming to suspect her friend, Ted, of the crimes.
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Prosecutors tried 54 former Argentine officials in the deaths or forced disappearances of 789 people, and presented testimony from more than 800 witnesses.
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The disappearances began almost immediately after the coup, with opponents of military rule snatched from the streets and taken to clandestine torture centers.
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Under international law there are no exceptions that permit for enforced disappearances, and yet this is exactly what China has attempted to legislate.
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Human rights groups have long criticized the Rwandan government's intolerance of dissent under Kagame and mysterious murders and disappearances of some opposition critics.
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Kinsman and Esen's disappearances sparked alarm within Toronto's LGBTQ community and a meeting was held to discuss those concerns, reported CNN partner CBC.
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While the Israeli government is trying to be more transparent about the disappearances, to this day, it denies that there were systematic abductions.
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Last week, Amnesty International reported allegations of mass graves, while reports of a growing number of arrests and disappearances have begun to emerge.
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PTM leaders hold Pakistan's army responsible for the scores of disappearances that have taken place during military operations against Taliban militants in the region.
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After one month of their disappearances, researchers found that Peterson and Hacking had, respectively, received 597 and 131 transcripts from four major news outlets.
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And finally, David recommends a new book that seeks to clear a man's name in connection to one of America's most famous unsolved disappearances.
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For her latest project, she's created a series of pieces documenting famous disappearances in Ireland, including the case of a young girl named Siobhan.
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The arrest looks like an attempt to force Memorial to cease its work in the region, where it has long documented torture and disappearances.
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Much of what anonymously seeps out of North Korea is pure rumor, and the deaths and disappearances of officials could be conjecture as well.
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DiNardo is a person of interest in the four disappearances and was previously been taken into custody on an unrelated gun charge, authorities said.
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The significance of these documents is invaluable to families, human rights groups, and prosecutors working to uncover the circumstances of the disappearances and killings.
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Statistical analysis of the documents revealed that the mass disappearances were not rogue operations, but part of a systematic method to repress leftist movements.
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During Argentina's "dirty war" in the 1970s it was the only newspaper that denounced the disappearances of thousands of Argentines under the military regime.
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Members of the security forces are suspected in some of the disappearances, but many more are presumed to be the work of drug gangs.
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At the same time, formal complaints filed by civilians with different government agencies about allegations of torture, extrajudicial killings and forced disappearances have surged.
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To help, here's a list of climate-relevant news that has transpired in 2150, from historically unprecedented disappearances of ice, to flood-ravaged cities.
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The Colombian journalist was investigating killings, disappearances, weapons trafficking and corruption at La Modelo prison in May 2000 when she was kidnapped and raped.
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Confessions go prime time in China The disappearances sparked protests in Hong Kong, where they were seen as violations of the city's autonomous status.
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In real time, scientists are seeing unprecedented disappearances of Arctic ice, vanishing mountain glaciers, a surge of large, destructive wildfires, and continually warming seas.
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A number of governments have expressed concern regarding the disappearances, which some diplomats fear were abductions by Chinese agents in Hong Kong and Thailand.
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The disappearances began in 2010 when Sri Lankan immigrant Skandaraj Navaratnam, 40, disappeared after he was seen leaving a bar with an unknown man.
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Rowan Atkinson argued, in his humour-dissecting documentary series "Funny Business", that one of the fundamental principles of visual comedy is appearances and disappearances.
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In her memoir, Henson writes that the stress of a new baby, working and Johnson's disappearances late at night resulted in a huge fight.
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So far, Chinese authorities have not made any substantial statements explaining Beijing's role in the disappearances, nor how the men ended up in China.
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According to the International Crisis Group and Human Rights Watch, the government has silenced critics by resorting to enforced disappearances, torture and extrajudicial killings.
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Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont, who sought the aid conditions, said Mexico had not made sufficient progress in ending torture, disappearances and extrajudicial killings.
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The spate of deaths and disappearances has received heightened attention since Prime Minister Justin Trudeau launched an inquiry, a measure opposed by his predecessor.
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The denial came after a U.N. official last week spoke of Xinjiang becoming "something resembling a massive internment camp," with mass detention and disappearances.
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Pena Nieto's popularity suffered lasting damage from the scandal over the disappearances, and his government was heavily criticized for its handling of the investigation.
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As the friends race to save themselves, Ramón draws suspicion from local police who think the newcomer may be responsible for the town's disappearances.
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The case soon became a symbol of widespread disappearances, violence and corruption in Mexico — and the impunity with which such crimes were carried out.
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Military actions have displaced a large part of the population, and officials have long been accused of involvement in extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances.
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Executions of civilians, forced displacements, destroyed villages, arbitrary arrests and disappearances of Kurdish journalists, activists and politicians filled that dark decade of the 1990s.
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Enforced disappearances are when agents of the state grab someone and refuse to acknowledge they are holding them, or conceal their fate or whereabouts.
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"There are many allegations of extrajudicial executions, torture, and disappearances — some of the most serious violations," panel member Christof Heyns told a news briefing.
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According to national police figures, disappearances in El Salvador rose significantly in 2018, to nearly 2,500, the highest in more than a dozen years.
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Grace Meng defended her husband as an innocent man and criticized the Chinese government for the disappearances and lack of transparency over the detentions.
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Grace Meng told of how many elderly Chinese people had lost their adult children in the disappearances, never finding out what happened to them.
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During his term, Veracruz, an oil-rich area on the Gulf Coast, suffered spiraling violence and widespread disappearances as criminal organizations fought for turf.
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Mexican officials said most disappearances have taken place in 10 different states in swaths of the country with a heavy presence of drug cartels.
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She questioned what she saw as suspicious deaths and disappearances of prominent businessmen, lawyers, journalists and a former intelligence official, among others, Anne says.
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In November 2012, the Toronto police began an investigation into the disappearances of three men who, it eventually emerged, were murdered by Mr. McArthur.
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The authorities have repeatedly tried to quash the protests, leading to the disappearances and detentions of more than 50 people associated with the campaign.
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In a statement Wednesday, the U.N. office said that it had documented the disappearances of 21 males and two females, including at least five minors.
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In April, the ICC opened a preliminary investigation into Burundi, focusing on killings, imprisonment, torture, rape and other sexual violence, as well as enforced disappearances.
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Last year, they announced the joint launch of a $100 million "Rule of Law Fund" to investigate the deaths and disappearances of Chinese public figures.
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He has been described as a person of interest in the case, but it is unclear if he has been charged in the four disappearances.
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If sending the letter in the first place suggests Lucy's culpability in her kids' disappearances, her extreme reaction to Amelia's advice is even more suspect.
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Unlike Mr Chaudhry, Mr Nisar has avoided topics the army would rather not discuss, such as unexplained disappearances of those who annoy the top brass.
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They call it "enforced disappearances," and in the first five months of 2016 alone, a suspected 630 of these have already been documented, Amnesty says.
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Enforced disappearances, seen in tribal areas and Baluchistan for the past 15 years, have become widespread across Pakistan, committee member Olivier de Frouville told reporters.
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In another sign of Barrow's intention to break with his predecessor, police opened their first investigations on Monday into unresolved deaths and disappearances under Jammeh.
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Since the disappearances look disastrous for China's image, many in Hong Kong believe that they cannot have been a deliberate policy by the central leadership.
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They established little fiefdoms in the hills and mountains of NorCal, where tales of police raids, buried fortunes, and bizarre disappearances were all too common.
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Series of disappearances At least four Hong Kong-based employees and business partners from Gui's publishing company Mighty Current have also disappeared in recent months.
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A Missouri man believed to be responsible for the disappearances of two women nearly a decade apart has been charged with their murders, PEOPLE confirms.
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"Given the terrible record of arbitrary detention, torture and enforced disappearances, we are of course deeply concerned about the fate of these individuals," Colville said.
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DAKAR (Reuters) - France called on Thursday for an investigation into the disappearances of Chadian soldiers since last month's presidential election in its former African colony.
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Mexico's National Human Rights Commission asked the Navy and others to protect the population of Tamaulipas, but at least three disappearances had happened since then.
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Zeid said the events were a litmus test of whether Mexico's new General Law on Disappearances represented real change or a continued failure of justice.
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The Not Invisible Act seeks to create an overarching federal strategy to address the largely overlooked epidemic of disappearances, homicide and violence targeting indigenous people.
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The men's disappearances has sparked angry protests in Hong Kong and calls for an investigation of how Lee and Gui ended up in mainland China.
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Burundi's government also imposes forced labor, according to the report, while groups including Human Rights Watch have implicated its security forces in murders and disappearances.
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Indeed, in the city of Juarez, Mexico, hundreds of women were murdered in the 1990s, and another wave of disappearances occurred in 2009 and 2010.
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But the tactics caused a national outrage when it emerged that soldiers, aiming to meet their quotas, engaged in widespread killings and disappearances of civilians.
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She's horrified by Camille's reporting assignment and forbids her from talking about Ann and Natalie in her presence because she's still reeling from their disappearances.
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They play a couple in a dysfunctional marriage that turns into a crime thriller when Ben becomes the prime suspect in a string of disappearances.
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He has also used his photography to challenge the Bangladeshi government and military on freedom of speech issues and the "disappearances" of their political opponents.
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Army Chief General Apirat Kongsompong, who is also head of the Royal Guard Force, did not respond to a request for comment on the disappearances.
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The chemical attack was just his most recent atrocity, after years of torture, enforced disappearances, siege warfare and indiscriminate bombing of civilian neighborhoods and hospitals.
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The man who confessed, Cosmo DiNardo, 20, knew the victims and had been described by the authorities as a "person of interest" in the disappearances.
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The police track missing items only when the disappearances are reported, which can sometimes be years later, limiting their power to find and prosecute thieves.
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The CCDI handled some 734,000 investigations in 2016, and now under the NSC, with its expanded scope, disappearances and other abuses are likely to increase.
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Their bodies were never recovered, and they are assumed to have been executed, classified as "enforced disappearances" in the language of international human rights law.
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In 2009, General Alvarez was sentenced to 25 years in prison for his role in the deaths or disappearances of 37 Uruguayans under Operation Condor.
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Burundi's government also imposes forced labor, Walk Free said, while rights groups including Human Rights Watch have implicated its security forces in murders and disappearances.
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During the trial, while American audiences were focused on the courtroom, the Mexican government held a news conference on forced disappearances south of the border.
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Pakistan's military operations against the militants brought further misery: civilian killings, displacements, enforced disappearances, humiliation and the destruction of our livelihoods and way of life.
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Alamzaib Khan Mehsud, an activist who was gathering data and advocating on behalf of victims of land mines and enforced disappearances, was arrested in January.
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Everyone lost someone, or knew someone who lost someone, and because there's no explanation to offer for the disappearances, the absence is impossible to shake.
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Army Chief General Apirat Kongsompong, who is also head of the Royal Guard Force, did not respond to a request for comment on the disappearances.
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But at the same time as the Ayotzinapa case now finally appears to be moving forward, the numbers of new forced disappearances keep piling up.
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After Nkurunziza secured victory at the polls, the unrest shifted to politically targeted killings on both sides, disappearances, and government sweeps of suspected rebel hideouts.
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Their 3-year-old daughter shows a photo of the last collateral victim of the disappearances: the Cruz&aposs other son, who hanged himself in despair.
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The 20 case files will be handled by the federal prosecutors&apos office on forced disappearances, a term used to refer to abductions by security forces.
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Investigators believed he took the lives of 30 or more young women across the nation, yet authorities fear he was behind about 100 slayings and disappearances.
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"The most significant human rights-related problems included law enforcement and military involvement in serious abuses, such as unlawful killings, torture, and disappearances," the report said.
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Aylwin set up a National Truth and Reconciliation Commission to investigate and document the political executions and forced disappearances of suspected leftists by Pinochet's security forces.
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Eight cases of disappearances in Laos have been referred to a United Nations working group since 1994, but the actual number of incidents could be higher.
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Peter Parker, Thor, and Wolverine, among many others, have all enjoyed extended leaves of absence this century, and their disappearances just made viewers appreciate them more.
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She recalls that the stress of a new baby, working and Mark's disappearances late at night resulted in a huge fight one night that turned physical.
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Arthur Ream, 68, the convicted killer of a 13-year-old girl, is considered a person of interest in the disappearances of several girls in Michigan.
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Many remain missing, despite the discovery of mass graves, and no one knows for sure how many were "Anfalised" as Kurds call the killings and disappearances.
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And the 227 million pages of police documents currently being cataloged and digitized reveal incriminating details of how forced disappearances were carried out by the state.
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Showy was born in the La Playa municipality in Colombia's Catatumbo region, another border territory stained by war and the forced disappearances administered by paramilitary organizations.
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Other publishers and book vendors are unnerved by the mysterious disappearances, and in some cases they have pulled books critical of Beijing's leaders from their shelves.
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According to government estimates, 32,000 people have been reported missing in Mexico since 2006, disappearances that have caused an indelible wound on families across the country.
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But he refrained from disavowing the abuses carried out by the junta during the region's longest military dictatorship, which included rape, forced disappearances and arbitrary detentions.
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Although Weintraub names Dinardo as a "person of interest" in the disappearances, he cautions that Dinardo is not accused of any crimes related to the investigation.
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But no matter how many people blame the region's disappearances on everything from time-warped Nazis to Cthulhu, the Bermuda Triangle is not a geographical boogeyman.
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The U.N. human rights office continued to receive reports of ongoing violations against Rohingya in Myanmar including allegations of killings, disappearances and arbitrary arrests, Bachelet said.
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Season three explores several of them, with the most notable development being that Shiro's strange disappearances are revealed to be less coincidental than they once seemed.
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" French Foreign Ministry spokesman Romain Nadal told reporters: "France, like its international partners, is worried over the disappearances, reported by human rights groups, of Chadian soldiers.
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Zeid has called on Mexican authorities to end the disappearances "amid strong indications that these crimes have been committed by federal security forces", the statement said.
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The 210 crackdown While being a human rights lawyer has never been an easy path in Communist China, forced disappearances of lawyers were rare before 220.
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Watch it hereA reimagining of the iconic Australian novel that plunges us into the mysterious disappearances of three schoolgirls and their governess on Valentine's Day, 1900.
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"I also received troubling information of increased numbers of enforced disappearances of women and men alike, which may indicate even higher numbers of killings," she said.
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I believe future action rests with that office, with the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances and with the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions.
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With over 22019 million Uyghurs confined to "re-education camps" under deplorable conditions, and reports of mass disappearances, the situation may devolve into an ethnic cleansing.
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Those who challenge the status quo or try to set up civil society organizations outside Communist Party control have endured harassment, arrests, disappearances, and mysterious accidents.
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For years, citizens had feared any major show against the government, which has long been accused of human rights abuses, disappearances, and harsh crackdowns on dissent.
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Hopes have risen over his government's inquiry into the murders and disappearances of indigenous women, and his commitment to further incorporate indigenous rights into Canadian law.
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Disappearances, extrajudicial killings, torture, intimidation — all have been brought to bear, and in the vast majority of cases, no one has ever been brought to justice.
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The lack of information about the disappearances, and what one returning bookseller said were forced confessions, have sowed fear in Hong Kong's once-thriving publishing community.
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Perry also announced he was offering $200,000 for information leading to the conviction of "the person" who they believe to be the culprit in the disappearances.
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The case has reverberated across much of the country, reviving memories of the mass disappearances and killings that took place during the brutal 1976-1983 dictatorship.
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Authorities reported this month that more than 61,000 people have disappeared in Mexico, while more than 97 percent of those disappearances have been reported since 2006.
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But a series of disappearances among Hong Kong's bookseller community has prompted fears that mainland Chinese authorities may be using shadowy tactics that erode that formula.
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The cases of Mexico and Honduras demonstrate how the reliance on the military for policing can increase human rights abuses, including torture, disappearances and extrajudicial killings.
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An Amnesty International report on enforced disappearances in Mexico released on Thursday says there is a lack of skills and political will to solve the problem.
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On Tuesday, British authorities weighed in on the disappearances, saying it was "deeply concerned" over the possible detentions of the booksellers, one of whom is British.
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MEXICO CITY – Mexican federal prosecutors are taking over the investigation into the disappearances of 28 people in the northern border city of Nuevo Laredo in recent months.
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Activists and U.N. investigators have accused Mexican security forces of murder, torture and disappearances since the military was sent to fight its powerful drug cartels in 2007.
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The ICC opened a preliminary investigation in April into Burundi, focusing on killings, imprisonment, torture, rape and other forms of sexual violence, as well as enforced disappearances.
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At the time, when conflict with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) was at its height, such disappearances and killings were common, mostly in Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast.
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"With this case, we are possibly talking about one of the largest cases of forced disappearances in Latin America," prosecutor Aldana said when she announced the warrants.
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We already have been contacted by other jurisdictions in regards to their outstanding murders and disappearances, and we remain cognizant of those while we continue our investigation.
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The disappearances have stoked fears of mainland Chinese authorities using shadowy tactics that erode the "one country, two systems" formula under which Hong Kong returned to China.
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U.N. human rights officials in March wrote to the Thai foreign ministry to express "most serious concern" about disappearances of several prominent exiled critics of the regime.
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In 2013, he was interviewed by police over the disappearances of three of his victims, though he was considered to be a witness rather than a suspect.
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Homicides reached a record high in 13, a foreseeable outcome after several years marked by mass disappearances and massacres committed by state forces alongside ubiquitous drug violence.
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But the facts of their disappearances followed by Vail's questionable explanations were presented at trial, allowing prosecutors to portray Vail as perhaps the nation's oldest serial killer.
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The reported arrest and disappearances come at a time of sustained pressure on labor activists in China amid a crackdown on civil society under President Xi Jinping.
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The report says the Myanmar military is guilty of committing new "war crimes," including extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances, and torture in its fight against ethnic Rakhine rebels.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - Turkmenistan must renounce torture, a U.N. body said on Wednesday, accusing the country of systematic abuse, including rape and beating in jail, and political disappearances.
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The following day, a gunfight left 14 civilians and one soldier dead in Tepochica, near Iguala, a city notorious for the 2014 disappearances of 43 student teachers.
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Feral cats are reckoned to be culprits in 27 of those disappearances: among them the desert bandicoot, the crescent nailtail wallaby and the large-eared hopping mouse.
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His wife told a television news channel that Mr Lee had later telephoned her to say that he was "assisting in investigations" relating to the other disappearances.
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It goes on to say that Ukrainian law enforcement officials, mainly elements of the Security Service of Ukraine, were also suspected of enforced disappearances, detentions and torture.
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"We already have been contacted by other jurisdictions in regards to their outstanding murders and disappearances, and we remain cognizant of those while we continue our investigation."
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Between the reported disappearances of his family and his murder arrest, Chris spoke with local TV reporters, describing himself as a grieving — even traumatized — father and husband.
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"The panel also found there was direct surveillance on the activities by both pastor Koh and Amri in their respective organizations before their disappearances," the commission said.
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Herrera has said he wrote it after the outbreak of swine flu, and it also clearly treats the kidnappings, disappearances and murders too common in contemporary Mexico.
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Complaints of torture, enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings had increased in recent years and the government had failed to investigate and punish the perpetrators, the organizations said.
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Families have reported more than 5,000 people missing, making Sri Lanka the country with the second-highest number of disappearances in the world, the world body said.
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Kronenfeld urged Egypt to "address impunity by credibly investigating allegations of extrajudicial killings, torture, and forced disappearances by security forces, publicly release findings, and prosecute those responsible".
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Kronenfeld urged Egypt to "address impunity by credibly investigating allegations of extrajudicial killings, torture, and forced disappearances by security forces, publicly release findings, and prosecute those responsible".
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He cited a growing number of disappearances and underscored the fear that the political crisis could "open up old wounds" between Burundi's ethnic Hutu and Tutsi communities.
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The IACHR is a leading human rights organization that has tackled issues of torture, killings and disappearances in North, Central and South America for nearly 60 years.
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Other Egyptian dissidents have suffered far worse treatment, with a sharp rise in detentions, torture and enforced disappearances over the past year, according to human rights groups.
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On the page, The Administrator recorded the disappearances, noted the daily RS that occur in the city, and listed the various businesses that deal with the criminals.
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Memorial has angered authorities in Chechnya by reporting disappearances, torture and punitive house burnings there, and Titiev's predecessor, Natalia Estemirova, was kidnapped and shot dead in 2009.
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Thousands of Algerians similarly went missing during their war for independence from 1954 to 1962, and for six decades France had nothing to say about those disappearances.
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Enciso says that justice in an amnesty plan would mean creating truth commissions for the country's most notorious recent crimes, like the disappearances of the Ayotzinapa students.
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There's been a call for an investigation into the disappearances, but a police spokesperson says the numbers are not alarming ... they're in line with missing persons stats.
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The precedent set in the case could ultimately lead to the release of 50 other suspects who have been detained in connection with the disappearances, Encinas said.
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Michelle Bachelet, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, said she wanted independent access to investigate reports of "enforced disappearances and arbitrary detentions," especially in Xinjiang.
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Neither the minister who oversees religious affairs nor our clerics have issued fatwas or told us the position of Shariah on torture, police brutality or forcible disappearances.
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I saw myself most in Nora (played by Carrie Coon), the woman who lost her husband and children in the disappearances, and has mixed feelings about it.
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One of those books, "The Lost Boys," about the disappearances of young men in Belfast in the late 1960s and ′70s, is to be released next year.
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Last month, the United Nations Committee on Enforced Disappearances urged the authorities to adopt an "integral and exhaustive strategy for the search and location" of Mr. Maldonado.
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After the first disappearances were reported, involving three Middle Eastern and South Asian men, the police began a special investigation in 2012, though that came up empty.
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In the April 63 article "Native American Women Are Facing a Crisis," Maya Salam highlights data from various sources on abuse and disappearances of Native American women.
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But in recent months, his government has imposed a harsh crackdown on journalists, human rights activists and aid groups that document torture, disappearances and other rights abuses.
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Before their disappearances, Mr. Fang and Mr. Chen had recorded dozens of videos from Wuhan, streaming unfiltered and often heartbreaking images from the center of the outbreak.
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Her disappearance, should be seen within the broader context of the ever-expanding use of enforced disappearances under Xi Jinping, and the newly-formed National Supervision Commission.
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Heitkamp's bill would have set up a national MMIW database and included a series of requirements for law enforcement regarding responding to and reporting disappearances and murders.
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Officials said they would call Jesus Murillo, the attorney general who oversaw the Pena Nieto-era probe into the disappearances, to answer questions about it next week.
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He also spoke about official corruption, years of misrule, the suppression of dissent and extrajudicial killings and disappearances under the watch of Ms. Hasina's governing Awami League.
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Canada: A national inquiry into the widespread killings and disappearances of Indigenous women and girls has equated the violence with genocide, according to a long-anticipated report.
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Speaking with local station KUSA before Shanann, Bella and Celeste were discovered dead, Chris said their house had been scarred by the apparent disappearances, first reported on Monday.
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The loud lacrosse bros, eerie employee disappearances and lack of any discernible leadership should all have been clear warning signs that something strange was going on at HubSpot.
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Chinese authorities have declined to clarify key details of the disappearances and investigation into Gui, but said law enforcement officials would never do anything illegal, especially not overseas.
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Publishers and book vendors in the city have also been unnerved by the mysterious disappearances, and in some cases pulled books critical of Beijing's leaders from their shelves.
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Aside from extra-judicial killings and disappearances targeting Islamists and other dissidents, the ruling party has instigated a crippling barrage of lawsuits—some 37,000 against the BNP alone.
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Disappearances... and threats Witnesses say 35-year-old Abdiwahab Noor Abdi Diis was arrested in his retail shop by men wearing Kenyan military uniforms and driving armored vehicles.
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In the eight years that have passed since the war ended, the government has failed to prosecute alleged war crimes such as torture, unlawful killings and enforced disappearances.
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In the 1990s he investigated disappearances in the Kurdish south-east, torture in prisons and killings of journalists (including that of a friend, Metin Goktepe, by police officers).
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Last summer, the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances said it had referred the cases of 66 people to Mr. Sisi's government for urgent action.
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For Feathered Changes, Serpent Disappearances, Deball creates rubbings, sculpture, and pottery as a set of studies on the sometimes haphazard dispersal, recombination, and interpretation of artifacts over time.
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At the top of a long list of human rights concerns were Pakistan's renewed use of the death penalty, its blasphemy laws, and "enforced disappearances" and extrajudicial killings.
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Over the past week, there have been reports of torture, kidnapping and death threats against witnesses of disappearances and relatives of the missing around Nuevo Laredo, Ramos said.
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"Grave human rights violations, such as arbitrary arrests and detentions, enforced disappearances, ill-treatment and torture, and at least one extra-judicial execution were documented," the report said.
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Police have called McArthur a serial killer but have come under fire for denying for months, in the midst of disappearances, that someone was targeting the gay community.
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Toronto police have been criticized by some in the LGBTQ community for taking years to solve disappearances dating back to at least 2010 in the Gay Village neighborhood.
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In December, after years of refusal by his conservative predecessor, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a long-awaited national inquiry into the disappearances and murders of indigenous women.
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As an activist, Rwigara has questioned what she believes to be the suspicious deaths and disappearances of prominent businessmen, lawyers, journalists and a former intelligence official, among others.
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The region has seen multiple anti-India insurgencies in the past, to which the Indian government and military have responded with mass arrests, internet blackouts, and forced disappearances.
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They allow governments to seize assets, freeze bank accounts and bar travel by government officials implicated in torture, extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances and other serious human rights violations.
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She is also the co-founder of No More Silence, a support network for activists, academics, and researchers working to stop the murders and disappearances of indigenous women.
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Bachelet, a former president of Chile, has pushed China to grant the United Nations access to investigate reports of disappearances and arbitrary detentions, particularly of Muslims in Xinjiang.
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" But on the title track, Lenker sings of alien disappearances and loss with, "she's taking up root in the sky / see her flickering / her system won't even try.
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The Inter-American Commission of Human Rights said on Friday it was too early to deliver conclusions from a five-day investigation into allegations of murder and disappearances.
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After riots erupted in Xinjiang in July 2009, Mr. Tohti published articles reporting arrests and disappearances of Uighurs by the Chinese authorities and was detained for several weeks.
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Lasting from 1980–1992, the conflict between the US-backed government and a coalition of left-wing rebel groups resulted in 75,000 deaths and unknown numbers of disappearances.
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One of those books, "The Lost Boys," investigates the disappearances of young men in Belfast in the late 1960s and 1970s, and is scheduled for release next year.
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He was wounded and decorated, but then put under house arrest for denouncing what he called the extreme torture and disappearances taking place under President Gamal Abdel Nasser.
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And he has showered patronage on a tribal death squad called the Avengers of Blood, blamed for a long string of disappearances and killings of his political opponents.
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If the international community doesn't condemn such measures and take what action it can to stop them now, there's no telling how far China's enforced disappearances will spread.
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HONG KONG — The metal door of Causeway Bay Bookstore is locked, just as it was month after month after the disappearances last year of five Hong Kong booksellers.
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He feels the disappearances and deaths of children of color go underreported today and that the race of the Atlanta victims had to play a factor, he said.
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In a report released earlier this month, the Dhaka-based Odhikar group highlighted a worrying spate of what it called "enforced disappearances" of opposition leaders, students and activists.
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Thomas Fann, the chairman of Engage, a Malaysian human rights group, said there have been at least nine other cases of forced disappearances, often targeting criminal gang suspects.
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Silva had been investigating alleged abductions, torture, killings and enforced disappearances of journalists and activists while Rajapaksa was defense chief under the presidency of his brother, Mahinda Rajapaksa.
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When the investigators arrived in Mexico, after months of local protests over the disappearances, it was an exceptional moment: a reclusive government opening itself up to external scrutiny.
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In December, the Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms said it had registered 340 forced disappearances within two months in the country — an average of three each day.
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The U.N. human rights office continued to receive reports of ongoing violations committed against Rohingya in northern Rakhine, Myanmar - including alleged killings, disappearances and arbitrary arrests, Bachelet said.
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I reached out to some to find out about the more outrageous ways people have avoided getting drafted and heard about buckets of mayonnaise, broken arms, and sudden disappearances.
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But they made clear the disappearances have occurred at the same time that the police and the military have targeted people for wearing clothes associated with hip-hop culture.
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However, the team always works with official permission so its results will be accepted in court, and one member is on a new advisory body to deal with disappearances.
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First, they need Gary to do something for them, which is leave a voicemail suggesting that he and Dave are both alive, so everyone stops looking into their disappearances.
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Although Felix faces no other charges, the disappearances of Craver and Hensley were invoked during his trial, and he was prosecuted as perhaps the nation's oldest suspected serial killer.
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So far, Chinese authorities have not responded to multiple requests for comment about the missing men, nor have they made any substantial statements explaining Beijing's role in the disappearances.
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U.S. authorities accuse Kadyrov, who has been in charge of the majority-Muslim region of southern Russia since 2007, of overseeing "an administration involved in disappearances and extrajudicial killings".
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Following disappearances, bodies are found in rivers, "the victims have their arms tied behind their backs and sometimes their bodies are weighed down with stones to make them sink".
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Of course, instant stardom mixed with a nine-figure payday is enough to send any title-winner into hiding, so these "disappearances" didn't raise any eyebrows the gaming community.
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The official spokesperson for the Kenyan police says he's unaware of the two disappearances, and no charges have been brought against the two men or others at the mosque.
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She said the U.N. noted that the Nicaraguan National Assembly had created a truth commission to investigate the deaths and allegations of torture and enforced disappearances during the protests.
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Concerns over personal freedom were compounded by the disappearances earlier this year of several people in Hong Kong who were linked to a local publisher critical of Beijing's leadership.
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With these disappearances, lesbian, bi and queer women have had to scramble to fortify the remaining communities they created with no clear idea of how long they will last.
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Officers continue to investigate the circumstances surrounding the disappearances of the woman and her daughter and no charges have been filed in the case, a police spokeswoman tells PEOPLE.
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Mr. al-Hussein on Monday drew attention to reports that some government security agencies were involved in arrests, killings and disappearances of members of the army and the police.
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During the trial, Rwigara said that she stood by those remarks and said that cases of murders and disappearances "point to insecurity and fear," according to her Twitter account.
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" The panel also found evidence of systematic sexual violence, political persecution and exile, and disappearances of thousands who were thought not to support the Suharto dictatorship with "sufficient fervor.
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Activists and U.N. investigators have accused Mexican security forces of crimes including murder, torture and disappearances since the military was sent to tackle its powerful drug cartels in 2007.
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One consequence is that tens of thousands of children are now missing, their fates unknown and disappearances undocumented, while others remain at risk of abduction by militants or traffickers.
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Young Egyptians, especially, have been among the most vulnerable to enforced disappearances since Mr. Sisi led an ouster of the Muslim Brotherhood government of President Mohamed Morsi in 2013.
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The few documents that have emerged through the National Security Archive's efforts demonstrate that Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and President Ford were aware of the bloodshed and disappearances.
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The appearances and disappearances of constellations in the night sky yielded patterns that served as signs of predictable weather changes in the solar year of 365 or 366 days.
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"We urge China to clarify the current status of all five individuals and the circumstances surrounding their disappearances and to allow them to return to their homes," Kirby said.
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The results were not glorious snapshots of the barbudos entering Havana in January of 1959 but rather military coups, torture, disappearances and thousands of student lives lost in vain.
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He had received 21990 life sentences — the most of any military leader from that era — for crimes that included homicide, torture, forced disappearances and the kidnapping of a newborn.
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Many marchers wore red scarves as a gesture of support for the large number of indigenous women whose murders or disappearances have received relatively little attention from the police.
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The Mexican government estimates that 32,000 people have vanished in the country since 2006, and many of the disappearances are assumed to be related to violence by drug gangs.
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The murder of Audin goes back so far, to before the Algerian civil war of the 1990s, with its own use of torture, disappearances, massacres and its 150,000 deaths.
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Red dirt tracks are everywhere, and the main road through town has long been notorious for murders and mysterious disappearances, including a British backpacker who vanished 17 years ago.
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Last month, my organization joined with eight Mexican NGOs to reveal widespread collusion between public officials and drug cartels, resulting in massacres, forced disappearances, torture and other brutal violence.
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Bachelet, a former president of Chile, has repeatedly pushed China to grant the United Nations access to investigate reports of disappearances and arbitrary detentions, particularly of Muslims in Xinjiang.
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Since then, victims have continued to talk long into the night, describing a litany of killings, forced disappearances, torture and oppression from the nearly 60 years of authoritarian rule.
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Panama requested his extradition, and after more legal tussling he was flown home in December 2011 to serve 20 years for the disappearances of political opponents in the 1980s.
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The United States, content to ignore abuses like torture and enforced disappearances and eager to endorse elections as the sine qua non of democracy, seemed ready to play along.
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The remains of only one of the missing youths have been definitively identified so far, and the CIDH report on the disappearances picked serious holes in the government findings.
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A friend of Tylee's, Vaisia Itaaehau, told CNN affiliate KTSU that she came to know the family well over the years and was shocked to hear about the disappearances.
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In a comment provided after this story's publication, a spokesperson for Facebook, which owns WhatsApp, said the disappearances were the result of the messaging app's policy on inactive accounts.
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"It is difficult to move on when the people who are responsible for these mass disappearances are still there," said Sara Kayyali, a Syria researcher for Human Rights Watch.
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The Guatemalan authorities have arrested 210 retired army officers on charges of involvement in massacres and hundreds of forced disappearances at the height of the country's bitter civil war.
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Recently, she was working on "The Lost Boys," about the disappearances of children and young men during the Troubles, as the years of conflict in Northern Ireland are known.
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In April, Sabeen Mahmud, a friend of mine and one of the country's most prominent free speech activists, hosted a panel about disappearances in the country's largest province, Balochistan.
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"The markers of impending widespread violence in Burundi are gathered," FIDH president Sheila Muwanga said, specifying concerns like use of torture, enforced disappearances, and sexual violence in the country.
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Bachelet, a former president of Chile, has repeatedly pushed China to grant the United Nations access to investigate reports of disappearances and arbitrary detentions, particularly of Muslims in Xinjiang.
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Seven years after the Munoz disappearances, the only thing the family has found is a belt buckle that could have belonged to Toribio Munoz, Veleta&aposs 61-year-old husband.
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PTM, which drew nearly 10,000 people to its Karachi rally on Sunday, was founded in January in protest against alleged extrajudicial killings, arbitrary detention and "disappearances" of young Pashtun men.
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The theme is harder to avoid, however, in the wake of a major wave of prosecutions for massacres and forced disappearances that was launched just a week before the inauguration.
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In May, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights called on Mexico to take urgent measures to stop a wave of forced disappearances in Nuevo Laredo and surrounding areas.
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Since the war on drugs began, kidnappings and extortion have become commonplace, and Human Rights Watch has accused Mexican security officials of violating human rights through killings, torture and disappearances.
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His government is responsible for the arrests of over two dozen journalists, the shuttering of national and international media, and the widely documented police practice of forced disappearances and torture.
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The panel, composed of 10 independent experts, called on Burundi to exert rigorous control of its police and security forces and to halt crimes including extrajudicial executions, torture and disappearances.
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But there have been growing concerns that some of these freedoms are being eroded as Beijing asserts more control and the mysterious disappearances have sparked angry protests in the city.
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However, the mysterious disappearances of Mighty Current's five employees have raised concern that the Chinese government is moving to tighten its grip on Hong Kong and clamp down on dissent.
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At a news conference in Anchorage, officials declined to link Smith to a larger wave of homicides, sexual assaults, domestic violence and disappearances among indigenous women in Alaska and Canada.
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The arrest and disappearances come amid a crackdown on perceived threats to the stability of China's ruling Communist Party, particularly from sources with foreign ties such as China Labor Watch.
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Hundreds of people in Pakistan have gone missing in recent years in what appear to be forced disappearances, including a number of journalists and bloggers who criticized the security forces.
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People project their worst nightmares and wildest fantasies onto this patch of ocean, crediting its disappearances to aliens, time portals, the lost civilization of Atlantis, and countless other paranormal causes.
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According to a website dedicated to the "Triangle," disappearances include tour guide Middie Rivers in 1945, college student Paula Welden in 1946, and 8-year-old Paul Jepsen in 1950.
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As a result, she's spent her childhood alone at the edge of a forest, which her father has warned her not to enter, warning of its long history of disappearances.
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The OSCE can no longer ignore reports of forced disappearances, extrajudicial killings, torture, and other gross violations of human rights, and should hold the perpetrators of such vicious crimes accountable.
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In his nearly 22 years in power, the president has almost entirely eliminated the free press, has jailed critics, and has been accused of dozens of disappearances and unlawful detainments.
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"Legally exported US firearms have been used in massacres, disappearances, and by security forces that collude with criminal groups in Mexico on a broad scale," according to the Intercept report.
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"Given the terrible record of arbitrary detention, torture and enforced disappearances by the Syrian government, we are of course deeply concerned about the fate of these individuals," Mr. Colville said.
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They had traveled there to film footage about the legend of the murderous Blair Witch, said to be responsible for the disappearances and deaths of several townspeople over the centuries.
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Bookstores in Hong Kong have begun pulling literature banned in mainland China, after the mysterious disappearances of five booksellers linked to a company that had been selling politically sensitive books.
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More than 1,500 former officials in the country have been put on trial for crimes including torture, thousands of forced disappearances and executions and the abduction of hundreds of babies.
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The court also criticized the government for failing to follow leads that did not accord with its version of events, including the potential complicity of federal forces in the disappearances.
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I'll never forget the year of rage and grief that followed the students' disappearances, the marches filling the streets of Mexico City with as many as half a million protesters.
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The committee last invoked the procedures last year, when it condemned "reports of killings, summary executions, disappearances and torture, many of which appear to have an ethnic character," in Burundi.
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Wallace dominates the second half of the book, which tracks his appearances and disappearances, his mood swings, and the brilliant and devastating things he says to her along the way.
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The Bermuda Triangle is infamous for unexplained disappearances of ships, planes and people that have been blamed on aliens, the lost city of Atlantis and other supernatural or environmental causes.
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This carelessness, coupled with the possibility that the Chinese had hacked the covert communications channel, would explain many, if not all, of the disappearances and deaths, some former officials said.
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When Orlov sat down with Kadyrov, he tried to raise some of the issues that Memorial was working on in Chechnya—forced disappearances, torture, extrajudicial executions—while avoiding outright confrontation.
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His remarks were the most detailed yet from a Chinese official after the disappearances of Lee and four other booksellers who produced and sold gossipy books critical of Chinese leaders.
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"We are concerned at reports of torture, arbitrary detention, enforced disappearances, unfair trials and harassment of individuals engaged in promoting and defending human rights, their families and colleagues," she said.
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The constitutional court ultimately sided with the president and he won re-election in July, with the situation subsequently shifting to politically motivated violence, disappearances, and assassinations on both sides.
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Capcom's description of the game gives a taste of what you're in for: A series of strange disappearances have been occurring in the American Midwest within a place called Racoon City.
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The Mexican military has faced long lists of alleged human rights abuses, and Tamaulipas has been one of the states where they are repeatedly accused of extrajudicial killings and forced disappearances.
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Coupled with events like the recent disappearances of five people connected to a Hong Kong publisher of books critical of Beijing, the episode has raised questions about China's reach across borders.
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The search will start in the highland region of Ayacucho, where the Shining Path began its war and where, according to the truth commission, 40% of the deaths and disappearances occurred.
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He was recently added to America's "Magnitsky List" in connection with his alleged involvement "in disappearances and extrajudicial killings", including an anti-gay purge that swept the republic in early 2017.
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Chinese authorities have not responded to multiple requests for comment from Reuters, nor have they made any substantial statements explaining Beijing's role in the disappearances nor the fate of the men.
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The Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms, an advocacy group based in Cairo, said it had documented 340 cases of enforced disappearances, 11 of them involving minors, from August to November.
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In the immediate aftermath of the disappearances, Janis made missing persons posters, went on radio stations, talked to the media, put up billboards and helped raise $100,000 for a reward fund.
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Heightening their anxiety, soon after the disappearances another relative received phone calls warning the entire family to leave the state of Chihuahua within 24 hours or they would all be killed.
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Once in prison, he would reportedly bribe prison guards so that they would look the other way, and he also controlled access to one of the wings where the disappearances occurred.
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Her tenure was overshadowed by criticism of the government's investigation of the disappearances of 43 trainee students in southwest Mexico in September 2014, a scandal that dogged her predecessor, Jesus Murillo.
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Meanwhile, investigators are trying to figure out if Revere had anything to do with the disappearances of three women who went missing under suspicious circumstances between May 2016 and May 2017.
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Indeed, national security forces, considered a criminal cartel by the people, are under United Nations' investigation for "shocking" human rights abuses— including the purposeful deaths and "disappearances" of hundreds of civilians.
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President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has vowed to tackle Mexico's crisis of disappearances and mass graves in part by reinstating a national search system and allocating unlimited resources to the program.
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The disappearances of Mr. Liu, who leads Civil Rights and Livelihood Watch, and Mr. Huang, who runs the 64 Tianwang Human Rights Center, may be a prelude to the law's implementation.
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Haftar casts himself as a foe of extremism but is viewed by opponents as a new dictator in the mould of Gaddafi, whose four-decade rule saw torture, disappearances and assassinations.
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He was seen as an enforcer, accused of being behind the extrajudicial killings and disappearances of civilians opposed to President Pierre Nkurunziza's government, said Vital Nshimirimana, a Burundian human rights activist.
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Gwanda had written several articles about mysterious deaths and disappearances in Rufiji for local newspapers, but his wife has said she is unsure whether his disappearance was linked to his articles.
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Heavy-handed tactics - often linked to rising prison populations and human rights abuses including torture and disappearances – have not worked and have even increased violence in some countries, the report said.
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Officially, the Mexican government acknowledges the disappearances of more than 30,000 people — men, women and children trapped in a liminal abyss — neither dead nor alive, silent victims of the drug war.
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Mexico's crisis of forced disappearances soon entered the spotlight, as relatives searching for the missing students uncovered dozens of mass graves containing presumed cartel victims in the rugged hills around Iguala.
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The chronology of the Troubles offers a tally of bloody episodes leading to yet more carnage in a murky underground war of spies, hit men, summary executions and still unexplained disappearances.
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She said she waited one month before speaking to a journalist about the simultaneous disappearances of her sister and her aunt, Mayinur Abliz, in the hopes that officials would release them.
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Big City Late last month came news of three restaurant closings in downtown Manhattan, these commercial disappearances, driven largely by limitless escalation in rent, now more and more common and aggrieving.
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It can remind the Pakistani government of its obligations under the United Nations Convention against Torture and International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights to put an end to enforced disappearances.
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A vicious crackdown In the wake of ISIS' defeat in Mosul, many Sunnis are accusing the Iraqi government of launching a vicious crackdown on them, marked by disappearances and arbitrary detentions.
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He appeared to have died by strangulation, according to Human Rights Watch, which said there has been an "increase in suspicious deaths and disappearances" of FDU-Inkingi members in recent months.
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It condemned arbitrary detentions and enforced disappearances carried out by security forces, such as the Fuerzas de Acciones Especiales (Special Action Forces) known as FAES, and pro-government civilian armed groups.
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The report titled "We Do Unreasonable Things Here", based on the accounts of 19 former detainees and the family of another, claimed Egyptian authorities used arbitrary arrests, enforced disappearances, and torture.
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In a letter on Tuesday, the Congressional Black Caucus called on the Justice Department and the F.B.I. to determine whether the disappearances were an anomaly or part of a larger trend.
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Human rights groups have accused the leader of forced disappearances, torture, and arbitrary detentions, among other abuses, with Human Rights Watch saying the country's citizens live under a cloud of fear.
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How something persists—even through the chemical attacks, the abductions, mass rapes and beatings, the bombings, torture, murders, through crucifixions, the fire of hell cannons, the disappearances, and the public executions.
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The government was initially reluctant to join Colombia's media and blame the disappearances on the ELN, which had announced two months ago that it wants to enter into formal peace talks.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - The mysterious abduction of a Vietnamese former oil executive in broad daylight from a leafy district of Berlin is reminiscent of Cold War disappearances in the then divided German capital.
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It was a brilliant heist not only in terms of planning, but execution, and just one in a long list of dramatic crimes and disappearances orchestrated by a 28-year-old Shayne.
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Likewise, I have been humbled by the determination of Angkhana Neelapaijit from Thailand, whose husband, a lawyer, disappeared in 2004 leaving her to become a most courageous activist, fighting against enforced disappearances.
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The U.S. State Department's latest annual report on human rights in Egypt, released in March, said abuses included arbitrary or unlawful killings by the government or its agents, forced disappearances and torture.
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The September uptick in disappearances could be related to the summer season in Afghanistan which tends to witness an increase in fighting as the Taliban typically launch their offensives during that time.
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Foreign ministers from the countries said the experts had found that the Venezuelan government bore responsibility for crimes ranging from torture, murder and rape to forced disappearances and violations of due process.
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MEXICO CITY — The Guatemalan authorities on Wednesday arrested 19863 former military officers on charges related to massacres and disappearances during the 1980s, the bloodiest period of the country's 36-year civil war.
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Deball applies Cage's process to the manufacture and placement of the pieces and incorporates original Cage etchings into the exhibition including a score and supplementary maps from his Changes and Disappearances series.
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Military sources and local media have speculated Marxist rebels or crime gangs operating in the area may be responsible for the disappearances, but the government has not yet classified them as kidnappings.
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The East African country has been one of the continent's most stable nations, but opposition leaders have recently expressed concern over a string of unexplained disappearances and violent attacks on political figures.
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PTM blames the Pakistani military and other state organs for what it says are forced disappearances resulting in thousands of unresolved missing persons cases, primarily from the ethnic Pashtun region bordering Afghanistan.
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When civil activists raised the alarm about the disappearances, authorities revealed that blasphemy cases had been filed against the bloggers, accusing them of supporting or associating with anti-Islamic pages on Facebook.
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References are already being made to former Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos, whose 1972-1986 regime was characterized by martial law and synonymous with arbitrary arrests, detention, disappearances, as well as extrajudicial killings.
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READ: Hong Kong missing booksellers push hidden industry into spotlight String of disappearances Lee, a British national, was first reported missing on December 30 and was last seen near his company's warehouse.
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The new government ratified the UN convention on enforced disappearances and allowed its working group to visit, even throwing open a former secret detention facility and escorting its members to mass graves.
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Within countries, as the proportion of women in parliament rises, the likelihood that the state carries out human rights abuses -- such as torture, killings, political imprisonments, and disappearances -- goes down as well.
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Nicolaou, whose ministry primarily supervises police, said his resignation was not an assumption of any responsibility, while adding there were "apparent shortcomings" in how police investigated the reports of the women's disappearances.
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McKee, a freelance reporter, had written a book detailing disappearances that occurred during The Troubles, a period of civil unrest in Northern Ireland that was marked by bombings and other violent acts.
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Jake Gyllenhaal, Hugh Jackman, and a stellar ensemble cast all deliver standout performances in this movie following a detective and father trying to get to the bottom of two young girls' disappearances.
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As the military cracked down on the M.Q.M., the Taliban and the city's other militant factions in recent years, it was accused of human rights violations, including extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances.
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Killings in Canada: A national inquiry into the widespread killings and disappearances of Indigenous women and girls equates the violence with genocide, according to a long-anticipated report to be released today.
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Ms. Bachelet pressed China to allow an independent inquiry into reports of abuses and enforced disappearances in the country, particularly in the western region of Xinjiang, where the Muslim Uighur minority resides.
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After the Pleistocene's wave of species disappearances carried off enormous creatures like saber-toothed cats and woolly mammoths, large mammals all over the world have continued to face pressure, mostly from humans.
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The United Nations said this week that it had "strong indications" that Mexican security forces were involved in the disappearances of nearly two dozen people in Nuevo Laredo, a northern border city.
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Anger over law enforcement's involvement in disappearances flared in 2014 after 43 college students were rounded up by police officers in southern Mexico, handed over to a criminal gang and presumably killed.
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Last August, the police opened a new special investigation, Project Prism, that focused on the disappearances of Mr. Kinsman and another man, Selim Essen, 44, a Turkish immigrant reported missing in April.
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Mr. Pashteen and his allies say that Pashtuns, who make up about 15 percent of Pakistan's population of some 204 million, have endured countless human rights violations, from disappearances to forced evictions.
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Two Pennsylvania men have been charged in the murder of four young men whose disappearances last week led to a widespread search of a vast farm and other sites north of Philadelphia.
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The disappearances are part of a complex past 12 months for the family -- a time frame in which police have investigated two deaths, one of which authorities say still is under investigation.
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Enforced disappearances expanded In my book "The People's Republic of the Disappeared" I argued that through the 2013 Criminal Procedure Law China has tried to create a legal basis for secret detentions.
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Many Mexican dissident groups decided to take up arms, and the government responded with forced disappearances, arrests of family members, and torture of men, women, guerrillas, and those suspected of supporting them.
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Tarek Mehanna is tried for thought crimes, and there are disappearances and entrapments and drone strikes and no one asks me how come it is my people who seem to be targeted.
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Jason Mack, a first secretary at the U.S. mission to the United Nations in Geneva, denounced alleged extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances, torture, arbitrary arrests, sexual violence and forced labour in North Korea.
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Beijing (CNN)Six Marxist university students who wanted to spend International Labor Day working alongside regular laborers have vanished in China, the latest in a series of disappearances and detentions of student activists.
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Like his assassinated father before him, Kadyrov, who faces charges of human rights violations including torture and forced disappearances, has overseen the reconstruction of Grozny following devastation from civil war in the 1990s.
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Download apps like CallerSmart Reverse Lookup, mCouple, and Couple Tracker -- and suddenly, a mysterious number has a name, the strange text messages have a face, and the quiet disappearances have an exact place.
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A series of bizarre occurrences, involving hallucinations and disappearances, convinces Stiller that his predecessor might have discovered something about the simulation—namely, that the world Stiller is living in is a simulation itself.
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He was arrested after a string of deaths and disappearances from Toronto's gay village, which left residents frightened that police were not taking enough action against someone they thought was targeting the community.
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"Given the terrible record of arbitrary detention, torture and enforced disappearances, we are of course deeply concerned about the fate of these individuals," a UN spokesman on human rights said on December 9th.
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With season 3, Channel Zero got more ambitious with its take on Search and Rescue Woods, a tale about unexplained disappearances that all seemed tied to staircases that magically appear in the woods.
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The military denies a crackdown against the Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM), which campaigns against alleged extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances of Pashtuns and other ethnic minorities, but says it is acting against lawbreakers.
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"Enforced disappearances are not a new phenomenon to Egypt, but it has increased dramatically" in the past couple of years, says Mohamed Lotfy, Executive Director of the Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedom.
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When his victims vanished there was often some lag before anyone noticed, and when they did there was nothing to differentiate their disappearances from the other 35,000 people who go missing every year.
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Anyone with information related to the disappearances of English, Flack, and/or Miller should contact Middletown Police Detective Kristi Hughes at 513-425-7700 or BCI at 855-BCI-OHIO (855-224-6446).
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Otherwise, the group said, the European countries risk "complicity in a wave of unlawful killings, enforced disappearances and torture" that the group says have been carried out by the police and government forces.
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Little has been done to investigate the thousands of accusations of torture, forced disappearances and extrajudicial killings that have mounted since former President Felipe Calderón began his nation's drug war a decade ago.
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NICOSIA (Reuters) - Cyprus's justice minister resigned on Thursday amid public uproar at how police handled disappearances of foreign women, victims of a suspected serial killer whose actions went undetected for almost three years.
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He said his resignation was not an assumption of blame, but that there were "apparent shortcomings" in how police, which come under his ministry's supervision, had investigated the reports of the women's disappearances.
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Mexico took part in the campaign, amassing some 226,22014 disappearances during the 93s and 29s at the hands of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, which ruled for nearly 210 years and governs again today.
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BUENOS AIRES — The disappearance of an indigenous rights activist in Argentina spurred violent clashes between demonstrators and the police on Friday and has raised dark memories of forced disappearances during the country's dictatorship.
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The case became emblematic of the tens of thousands of disappearances during Mexico's decade-long drug war, bringing protesters into the streets by the thousands and throwing Mr. Peña Nieto's presidency into crisis.
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The Espacio Memoria, a former naval academy turned detention center, is now a museum dedicated to documenting the torture and disappearances that marked the dark years (1976 to 1983) of the military dictatorship.
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Bachelet said there were still credible reports of serious human rights violations in Burundi, including arbitrary killings, forced disappearances, ill-treatment, arrests and detention, and curbs on freedom of association, expression and movement.
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She said there were still credible reports of serious human rights violations in Burundi, including arbitrary killings, forced disappearances, ill-treatment, arrests and detention, and curbs on freedom of association, expression and movement.
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Tens of thousands of Salvadorans have been displaced from their homes, and the number of disappearances suggests that the official homicide rate may be considerably higher than the numbers reported by the police.
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He is also counting on Salvadorans to support his tough-on-crime approach to address one of the highest murder rates in the world, along with terrifying rates of sexual violence and disappearances.
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Ms. Ismail has campaigned aggressively for women's rights, bringing attention to rapes, disappearances and other abuses that she and many others say have been committed by Pakistan's security forces against their own people.
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The Bermuda Triangle, a stretch of the Atlantic Ocean running between Puerto Rico, Bermuda, and Miami has been credited with the deaths and disappearances of over 8,000 lives since the mid-19th century.
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So far, Chinese authorities have not responded to multiple requests for comment from Reuters, nor have they made any substantial statements explaining Beijing's role in the disappearances nor the fate of the men.
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The UN also denounced serious human rights violations, including killings, disappearances, torture and gang rape of alleged political opponents, perpetrated by the police, security forces and the ruling party's youth league, the Imbonerakure.
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GATINEAU, Quebec — The widespread killings and disappearances of Indigenous women and girls in Canada are a "genocide" for which Canada itself is responsible, a national inquiry concluded in its final report on Monday.
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Haftar casts himself as a foe of extremism but is viewed by opponents as a new dictator in the mold of Gaddafi, whose four-decade rule was marked by torture, disappearances and assassinations.
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The rights group said that the predominantly Shi'ite Muslim militias, known collective as the Hashid Shaabi, were using weapons from Iraqi military stockpiles to commit war crimes including enforced disappearances, torture and summary killings.
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Balanta said judges will hear thousands of testimonies over the next 15 years of human rights atrocities, including rape, forced disappearances and massacres, aiming to uncover the truth about what happened during the war.
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A German sci-fi thriller series called Dark, which chronicles mysterious disappearances in a fictional town, was beloved by fans in Chile, Bangladesh, and Canada, in addition to being a big hit in Germany.
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The government's response has been far from solving cases of corruption, forced disappearances, and torture, but to spy on those who report them, according to reporting published this week in The New York Times.
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According to the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), at least 30 human rights defenders were victims of extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances in Thailand between 2001 and 2014.
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The latest round of disappearances appear to have taken place in recent days, ahead of a speech Tuesday by President Xi Jinping in honor of the 100th anniversary of the May 4 student protests.
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Voronkov visited Xinjiang before U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet, who has repeatedly pushed China to grant the United Nations access to investigate reports of disappearances and arbitrary detentions, particularly of Muslims in Xinjiang.
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Then came the sweep operations, mass arrests, enforced disappearances, torture and executions, the same type of operations that are now being reported from Aleppo and other areas of Syria recaptured by the Syrian government.
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The disappearances of the booksellers attracted widespread international condemnation in 2015 because many were abducted while outside mainland China, suggesting that Chinese agents felt free to go after dissidents in Hong Kong and Thailand.
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A murder trial has started for a man accused of fatally shooting an Ohio woman, one of a string of deaths and disappearances that have hung over the city of Chillicothe, Ohio, PEOPLE confirms.
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Slated for a March 133 release date, the Nintendo 3DS game will follow the journey of said Detective Pikachu as he tries to get to the bottom of strange disappearances in the Pokémon community.
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A Canadian government inquiry into the deaths and disappearances of more than 1,000 indigenous women in recent decades has deemed the situation a "genocide," blaming long-standing "colonial and discriminatory policies" for the tragedy.
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Last year, the U.N. Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances referred 55 cases of illegal abductions of MQM workers to the government, concluding a "pattern of specific targeting" of the MQM by Rangers.
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An Ohio man was found guilty of murder for fatally shooting a woman and dumping her body, one of several deaths or disappearances of women that have troubled a southern Ohio town, PEOPLE confirms.
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It said the Houthis and their allies had conducted arbitrary arrests and detentions of opponents, and that scores of men and women had been subjected to enforced disappearances and harsh sentences following unfair trails.
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani opposition lawmakers on Monday called for an investigation into the disappearance of four social activists last week, including a prominent university professor who often spoke out over disappearances of fellow campaigners.
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Although the number of disappearances is relatively small -- some 2,200 Afghan troops have received military training in the United States since 2007 -- the incidents raise questions about security and screening procedures for the programs.
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The IACHR, part of the Organization of American States, is a leading human rights organization that has tackled issues of torture, killings and disappearances in North, Central and South America for nearly 60 years.
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Numerous cases of sexual abuse and suicide, as well as unexplained disappearances of domestic workers, have been coming out of Kuwait and other Gulf states for several years, with Filipina women particularly at risk.
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Although the number of disappearances is relatively small — some 2,200 Afghan troops have received military training in the United States since 2007 — the incidents raise questions about security and screening procedures for the programs.
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Jammeh fled into exile in Equatorial Guinea in 2017 after losing an election that ended his 22-year-rule over the tiny West African country - a period marked by killings, torture and forced disappearances.
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There is no shortage of places in Mexico where reporters can run into serious trouble doing their jobs: Attacks against the press, from intimidation and threats to disappearances and murder, happen with disturbing frequency.
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Murder, imprisonment, hostage-taking and enforced disappearances of journalists all increased compared to last year, according to Reporters Without Borders (RSF), who criticized politicians and public figures for encouraging disdain for the news media.
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But just days into Nic's arrival, Annaleise evaporates into thin air, and town residents are understandably convinced that the two disappearances are connected, down to the roster of suspects, motives, and clues left behind.
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After massive street protests shook the foundations of President Daniel Ortega's authoritarian regime in April, police and armed parapolice groups cracked down with disproportionate force, including extrajudicial killings, forced disappearances, sexual violence and torture.
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These include: the forcible transfer of populations; arbitrary imprisonment; torture, the persecution of ethnic, cultural or religious groups; enforced disappearances; and apartheid, the institutionalized systematic oppression and domination by one racial group over others.
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The judges convicted Raia Mutomboki chief Frédéric Masudi Alimasi, who goes by the name Kokodikoko, along with two allies for murder, torture, enforced disappearances, sexual violence and enslavement committed over several months last year.
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Or they ponder their options in the Senda de Vida shelter - the only one to accept Central Americans - in a district dominated by the Gulf cartel, who are blamed for multiple kidnappings and disappearances.
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And an inquiry into the causes of disproportionately high rates of murder and disappearances among Canadian indigenous women, another Liberal government promise, is a mess of high-profile resignations and criticism of its efficacy.
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MALE, Sept 2 (Reuters) - An abducted Maldivian journalist was murdered by Islamist militants, a panel investigating deaths and disappearances under the previous government said, in remarks that were critical of former president Abdulla Yameen.
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Police, security forces and the ruling party's youth league, the Imbonerakure, had continued to commit serious human rights violations, including killings, disappearances, torture and gang rape of people allegedly opposed to President Pierre Nkurunziza.
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While his brutal approach had seen him repeatedly accused of serious abuses, including torture, extrajudicial killings and disappearances — accusations he denied — Raziq was a key ally of the coalition, and a crucial regional powerbroker.
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A Times investigation found that the prisons had far more victims than the Islamic State had, accounting for 23 percent of disappearances tallied by the Syrian Network for Human Rights, an independent monitoring group.
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North Korea has reportedly executed its army chief of staff, continuing a series of rumored executions, purges, and disappearances of top political and military officials under the regime of young leader Kim Jong-un.
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A Times investigation found that the prisons had far more victims than the Islamic State had, accounting for 90 percent of disappearances tallied by the Syrian Network for Human Rights, an independent monitoring group.
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Earlier on Thursday, the United Nations released its first report on human rights violations in Kashmir, calling for an international investigation into accounts of torture, disappearances and sexual violence committed by India and Pakistan.
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"He listened to us, he heard us and told us it was a done deal, that he would look into the disappearances," Ms. Molina said, but the captain has not spoken to them since.
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The police were there to stop a collection of aging mothers and their relatives, who were protesting the disappearances and extrajudicial killings decades ago of their family members, mostly activists from Turkey's Kurdish minority.
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But in spite of the dire prognoses and obvious strain the virus has put on hospitals' supply caches, Trump continued to question whether or not there was foul play involved in the masks' disappearances.
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As I argue in "The People's Republic of the Disappeared," since 2013 China has taken steps to systematize and formalize a previously extrajudicial system of enforced disappearances, hiding them behind the veneer of law.
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Enforced disappearances have been central to Xi's crackdown on civil society, now he will be able to enshrine them within China's nominally supreme law, alongside his governing philosophy, influencing China for decades to come.
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The disappearances have struck fear into the band, whose music and posts online call for revolt against the military and openly criticise the country's monarchy, Thailand's most sacred institution, which is illegal to insult.
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Wednesday's sanction came after the release of a State Department report documenting "extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances, arbitrary arrest and detention, forced labor, and torture," along with strict censorship, according to a State Department spokesperson.
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But unlike the torrent of grief and anger online in response to the death of Dr. Li, news of Mr. Chen's and Mr. Fang's disappearances has been swiftly stamped out on Chinese social media.
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But -- despite the tensions and the shouting matches and the disappearances and the threats and the silences -- he briefly helped collaborate with the Guardian and New York Times to produce some rather important reporting.
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"Albania is going through a slow, step-by-step evolution toward leaving its past behind," said Henrikas Mickevicius, a member of a United Nations working group on enforced disappearances that visited Albania in December.
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Only months after the coup, with the expected repression — including executions, forced disappearances, and torture — well underway, Kissinger met with Argentina's foreign minister, Admiral César Augusto Guzzetti, to express support for the new government.
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The disappearances have struck fear into the band, whose music and posts online call for revolt against the military and openly criticize the country's monarchy, Thailand's most sacred institution, which is illegal to insult.
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The death of navy captain Rafael Acosta came on the heels of a visit by the United Nation's human rights chief Michelle Bachelet to investigate rights violations ranging from extrajudicial killings to forced disappearances.
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"There are worrying indications that reprisals have continued to take place, notably against the political opposition, including physical attacks and ill-treatment, arbitrary arrests, harassment, disappearances and filing of criminal cases," the United Nations said.
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"We remain deeply concerned by ongoing widespread and gross human rights violations and abuses in the DPRK, including summary executions, enslavement, torture, arbitrary detention, and enforced disappearances," said William Mozdzierz, head of the U.S. delegation.
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"There remains the legacy of disappearances and unexplained deaths, detention without trial, repression of freedom of expression and the media," said human rights lawyer Gitobu Imanyara, who was held in solitary confinement for two years.
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At that point, authorities knew they were dealing with a predator, and the investigation into the girls' disappearances is the focus of tonight's episode of People Magazine Investigates, entitled "Fallen Angels," airing at 10 p.m.
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The organization said in a report based on a January field trip that people in Crimea complained of unwarranted house searches, excessive use of force by law enforcers, threats of abduction and disappearances of critics.
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Guerrero state public security spokesman Roberto Alvarez said 14 civilians and one soldier died in the shootout in the municipality of Tepochica, near Iguala, a city notorious for the 2014 disappearances of 43 student teachers.
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In 2002, Sheremet won a journalism prize from the Organization for Security and Co‑operation in Europe (OSCE) for his reporting on human rights violations in Belarus, including the disappearances of opposition politicians and journalists.
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These extrajudicial killings captured in the video are consistent with a broader pattern of disappearances, killings and cover-ups that Human Rights Watch previously documented in Egypt's battle against the Islamic State in North Sinai.
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Late on Friday, the Attorney General's office issued a statement saying it had begun investigations into 203 possible forced disappearances in Nuevo Laredo's home state of Tamaulipas where the Navy had been accused of involvement.
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Now writer-director Alex Garland returns with an adaptation of Jeff VanderMeer's 2014 novel about a biologist (Natalie Portman) who enters a quarantined jungle region, knowing that previous expeditions have led to disappearances and death.
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The poor management compounded job pressures for the Amnesty staff of about 2,500 who routinely work on cases of detentions, disappearances, killings, torture and other human rights abuses around the world, an external review found.
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In the report about disappearances and torture in the Ukraine war, titled "You Don't Exist," Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International document harrowing abuse by both sides, including waterboarding and the use of electrical shocks.
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The context, per the AP: "The arrest and disappearances come amid a crackdown on perceived threats to the stability of China's ruling Communist Party, particularly from sources with foreign ties such as China Labor Watch."
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The disappearances provoked concern that China was using shadowy tactics to erode the "one country, two systems" formula under which Hong Kong has been governed since its return to China from British rule in 1997.
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Photo: Alex Cranz (Gizmodo)Despite a few high-profile disappearances, plenty of iOS apps have companion apps for the Apple Watch—but only some of them bring genuinely useful functions and features to your wrist.
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The Chinese government has never explained the disappearances, which began in 2017, nor said how many people are being held in the camps, which they insist are "vocational training centers" that local "students" willingly attend.
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Mr. Kulter's case led some human rights advocates to accuse Turkish security forces of reverting to the practice of forced disappearances that was used during the earlier years of the Kurdish conflict in the 1990s.
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Here in Japan, the tragic disappearances strike a deeper emotional chord than the fear of ballistic missile attacks, and have resonance akin to that of the fate of American P.O.W.'s during the Vietnam War.
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As the disappearances continued, analysts concluded that Mr. Lee, even though he had been out of the C.I.A. for years, had known the identities of many of the those who had been killed or imprisoned.
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The government depoliticized the military, initiated investigations into Rajapaksa-era crimes, permitted human rights inquiries and established modest transitional justice mechanisms, including an Office of Missing Persons to investigate the enforced disappearances during the war.
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That movement has galvanized many Pashtuns in recent years with its protests against extrajudicial killings, disappearances and displacements of members of the community in the wake of military operations against the Taliban and other militants.
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The Turkish police forcefully dispersed a group of activists, some of them women in their 80s, over the weekend, breaking up a regular vigil in Istanbul to protest the forced disappearances of hundreds of people.
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The disappearances followed other investigations authorities had conducted around the family -- one of them was into the death of Vallow's estranged husband, who was shot and killed during a fight with her brother in Arizona.
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Grisel Barrientos, the director of the agency, said in an interview that documented cases of disappearances in Ecatepec show that most of them involve women who are later found to have left on their own.
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Guerrero state public security spokesman Roberto Alvarez said 14 civilians and one soldier died in the shootout in the municipality of Tepochica, near Iguala, a city notorious for the 2014 disappearances of 43 student teachers.
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Amnesty International has identified several crimes against humanity committed by members of Myanmar's military against the Rohingya Muslim population, including forcible deportation, enforced disappearances and abductions, forced starvation, and deprivation of livelihood and sexual violence.
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But it was a series of disappearances in January outside the normal workings of the law that greatly increased public fears and outrage over what was increasingly perceived as an unjust crackdown on public expression.
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As the agency began losing assets in China, it was not clear at first that the losses were systematic, but as the disappearances mounted, the American intelligence community eventually realized it had a major problem.
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According to the state government they had been found on a hillside in the neighboring municipality of San Miguel Totolapan, which has also been ravaged by violence and high incidents of extortions, disappearances, and murders.
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Syria's opposition, after years of enduring Assad's barrel bombs and chemical weapons, and the forced disappearances and torture chambers before them, have said over and over they could never accept that Assad stay in office.
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"Unfortunately, people inside China do not have this kind of freedom of expression," said Tienchi Martin-Liao, the former president of the Independent Chinese PEN Center, a writers' group that has expressed alarm at the disappearances.
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And while most of those disappearances have completely logical explanations — like "somebody fell off a cliff" logical — some of them are downright mysterious and eerie, with bodies seeming to appear in places they simply shouldn't be.
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He will be visiting Xinjiang before U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet, who has repeatedly pushed China to grant the United Nations access to investigate reports of disappearances and arbitrary detentions, particularly of Muslims in Xinjiang.
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The move Sunday came after the countries issued a rare public statement Friday regarding the case of Ibrahim Metwally Hegazy, who focused on the issue of forced disappearances and was himself arrested in secret on Sept.
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The first is to be able to extract a confession under torture from those persons who are detained in secret, and the second is to use the disappearances as a tool to spread fear among society.
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Now the Costa Rica-based Inter-American Court of Human Rights is examining the disappearances of the three civilians — Nitza Paola Alvarado Espinoza, José Ángel Alvarado Herrera and Rocío Irene Alvarado Reyes — for the first time.
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Jammeh fled to Equatorial Guinea in 2017 after losing a presidential election, bringing an end to 22 years in power marked by extrajudicial killings, torture and forced disappearances as well as the pilfering of state assets.
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Compounding fears that security conditions are not right for refugees to return, there are ongoing reports of alleged killings, disappearances and arbitrary arrests, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said on Tuesday.
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U.S.-backed military campaigns against Marxist guerrilla agitation implicated the armed forces and police across the region in hundreds of massacres, tens of thousands of extrajudicial murders, and countless forced disappearances throughout the 1970s and 1980s.
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Beginning with their first report, in September, the experts have systematically dismantled the government's conclusions, questioning the authorities' ability or commitment to thoroughly investigate the disappearances and raising doubts about the integrity of the judicial system.
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India's military occupation of Kashmir has unfolded apace under this law, spurring massacres, disappearances, torture, rape, and the deliberate blinding of protesters with pump-action shotguns firing cartridges packed with hundreds of tiny "nonlethal" lead pellets.
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In the cities and towns though, the interrogations, the regime "ghost houses" and disappearances, which we who grew up in the shadow of this regime remember all too well, are much invoked but not widely utilized.
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Both are Cairo-based groups that train lawyers to document possible rights abuses through contacts with victims and their families in several categories, ranging from claims of enforced disappearances and police torture to records of executions.
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The new authorities believe he took many of his valuable cars and treasures with him, after a period of rule characterized by extrajudicial killings, torture and forced disappearances as well as the pilfering of state assets.
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About 220,000 people were killed in the war, and all the factions - state security forces, government troops, paramilitary groups and leftist rebels - are responsible for the forced disappearances, according to Colombia's National Centre for Historical Memory.
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Gay McDougall, a member of the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, spoke of the region on Friday as becoming "something resembling a massive internment camp," with mass detention, re-education and disappearances.
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The disappearances have stoked fears of mainland Chinese authorities using shadowy tactics that erode the "one country, two systems" formula under which Hong Kong was returned to China in 1997 after 150 years of British rule.
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Tina's death in 2014 — and the acquittal of a white man in her killing — was one of an increasing number of deaths and disappearances of Indigenous women and girls that has shocked Canadians in recent years.
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Even its secretary general, Mirza Fakhul Islam Alamgir, acknowledged in an interview this month that human rights violations and corruption flourished under his party in the past, with extrajudicial killings and disappearances used as governance tools.
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In 2013, Hanif wrote a nonfiction book about the enforced disappearances in the Pakistani province of Balochistan, "The Baloch Who Is Not Missing Anymore and Others Who Are," published by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan.
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Egyptian security agents seized Ebrahim Metwally Hegazy, a lawyer and human rights defender, at Cairo's international airport last month as he was en route to Geneva to testify before a United Nations panel on enforced disappearances.
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But the possibility that the government has secretly taken Mr. Maldonado, 28, into custody has transfixed and angered many Argentines, for whom the memory of mass disappearances and killings during the 1976-83 dictatorship remains fresh.
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In 2013, the United Nations Committee on Enforced Disappearances censured Mr. Rajoy's government and the Spanish judiciary, and demanded Spain overturn the amnesty law and stop obstructing investigations into the hundreds of thousands of missing victims.
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Houthi authorities and affiliated popular committees were responsible for disappearances and the report cited the testimony of former detainees saying that their Houthi captors had tortured, raped and inflicted other forms of sexual violence on prisoners.
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Many in Hong Kong fear the growing power of the mainland Chinese government in the city's affairs, especially after the high-profile disappearances of people wanted or disliked by Beijing with little reaction from city officials.
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Dozens of people over the years have told The Times in detail about their arrests and detentions and the disappearances of their relatives into the maw of the security system, from early 26 to this month.
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The new figures showed a sharp increase from a prior official estimate of 74,000 disappearances from early 2018, and Ms. Quintana said it comes from updated and carefully revised information from the offices of local prosecutors.
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The current president, Maithripala Sirisena, was elected to office in a stunning upset in 2015, to a great extent on the promise of promoting justice and reconciliation, including an investigation into the disappearances during the war.
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Previously human rights groups have alleged that when the Mexican military and federal police have taken over epicenters of the drug trade it has led to torture, forced disappearances and summary executions carried out by authorities.
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To regain a stable footing, the Egyptian government should not only end its sustained assault on independent civil society organizations, but also free political prisoners, end torture, stop disappearances and extrajudicial killings, and protect religious minorities.
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That case is under investigation by the Chandler Police Department and Maricopa County Attorney&aposs Office, according to Fox 13, and has not been connected so far to the recent disappearances and Tammy Daybell&aposs death.
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Native American women, for instance, are disproportionately likely to be murdered or sexually assaulted, and at least in some areas, they are overrepresented among missing persons — but there is no comprehensive national data on their disappearances.
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There are hints of some terrible horror lurking in the heart of Southern rural America (in this case via the form of strange dolls that keep turning up at the scenes of children's murders and disappearances).
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In March 2027, two works are delving back into one of the most perplexing disappearances in recent history: The Australian podcast Maddie, and an eight-part Netflix series called The Disappearance Of Madeleine McCann, out March 6503.
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Jatta now volunteers as a social worker at the Victims' Center, a charity that has gathered over 900 testimonies of people who were affected by the widespread torture, disappearances, and land grabbings common during the previous government.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong will send a delegation of senior officials to Beijing on Tuesday to discuss notification when its residents are detained, after protests in the Asian financial hub over the disappearances of five booksellers.
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Indian law-enforcement officials are guilty of extrajudicial killings, torture, rape and enforced disappearances in J&K while Pakistan represses democratic freedoms, silences the press and practices routine torture in Azad Kashmir, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said.
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The student teachers disappeared in the southwestern city of Iguala, in Guerrero state, in September 2014, in an incident that sparked an international outcry over human-rights abuse, forced disappearances, and killings committed with impunity in Mexico.
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The Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC), which opened after repeated delays caused by a lack of funding, is part of a reckoning with a 22-year-long rule marked by extrajudicial killings, torture and forced disappearances.
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And (the government) is basically doing nothing in that area' While researching she heard numerous stories about murder, torture, extortion, kidnapping, and disappearances, and coined the phrase narcotrauma to explain the mental health issues they have caused.
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Antigo police chief Eric Roller told ABC News that the video was brought to the department's attention this weekend after someone saw it and "came up" with Berg's name after looking into disappearances from around that time.
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The disappearances have stoked fears of mainland Chinese authorities using shadowy tactics that erode the "one country, two systems" formula under which Hong Kong has been governed since its return to Chinese rule from Britain in 1997.
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Blum is known for horror movies such as "The Purge" and the Emmy Award-winning HBO miniseries "The Jinx," which chronicled real estate heir Robert Durst and the deaths or disappearances of three people close to him.
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The disappearances have stoked fears of mainland Chinese authorities using shadowy tactics that erode the "one country, two systems" formula under which the former British colony has been governed since its return to Chinese rule in 1997.
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In addition to the loss of two of the Cyclops' sister ships—the USS Nereus and the USS Proteus—within the region, the 1940s were punctuated by a series of high-profile airplane disappearances in the area.
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The Chinese government has never explained the disappearances, which began in 2017, nor said how many people are being held in the camps, which they insist are "vocational training centers" that local "students" are happy to attend.
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Human Rights Watch called on Iraqi commanders to prevent the PMU from taking part in military operations, citing a record of abuses against the Sunni population including summary killings, enforced disappearances, torture and the destruction of homes.
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Lam was one of five booksellers whose disappearances over the past year have been linked to the Causeway Bay Books store that had specialized in publishing and selling gossipy books about China's leaders, including President Xi Jinping.
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"In ramping up operations against the Taliban, the CIA has enabled abusive Afghan forces to commit atrocities including extrajudicial executions and disappearances," said Patricia Grossman, an associate Asia director for Human Rights Watch who wrote the report.
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Read more:2 murders, a death, and 2 disappearances in a remote, wild part of Canada could all be connected, police sayInvestigators are 'suspicious' after American woman and her Australian boyfriend were killed on Canada road trip
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Guernica 37, a UK legal group that had filed an urgent communication with the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (UN WGEID) regarding Sheikha Latifa in May, welcomed the news that Sheikha Latifa is alive.
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Mr. Giraldo's fellow extraditees have received relatively lenient treatment for major drug traffickers who were also designated terrorists responsible for massacres, forced disappearances and the displacement of entire villages, an investigation by The New York Times found.
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The BBC last week published a short documentary and report highlighting what it said were cases of enforced disappearances and torture carried out by security forces since President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi came to power in 2014.
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Their disappearances were treated as missing persons cases, but that began to change in April this year when construction workers at a Washington apartment building called police to say they'd discovered skeletal remains in a crawl space.
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"It," in case you're still wondering how a two-minute preview could keep a 28-year-old reporter up at night, follows a group of kids who investigate the mysterious disappearances of other children in their town.
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The discovery of the corpse was a dramatic turning point in a case that has dominated headlines in Argentina for weeks, evoking painful memories of abductions, mass disappearances and killings during the country's 1976-1983 military dictatorship.
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Seeing More Than 'Just Another Missing Teenager From the Bronx' The frequent disappearances of Desiree Santana's daughter have put a strain on the family's finances and the amount of time she has for her other five children.
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"There is no question that it was their courageous and determined stand that turned back the wave of 'disappearances,' which reached a peak in 1994," Amnesty International wrote in a report on the Saturday Mothers in 1998.
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Mr. Zerón was removed from his post in 2016, after video obtained by international investigators looking into the disappearances showed him handling evidence related to the case that was never logged in any official files, they said.
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Known as the Causeway Bay Books disappearances, all five of those missing were linked to a Hong Kong bookstore owned by publisher Mighty Current, best known for gossipy titles about China's ruling elite, including President Xi Jinping.
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