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Velásquez Rodríguez v. Honduras is a landmark case that was decided by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) in 1988. [1] It is a seminal case in the realm of international human rights law that is known for its analysis of state responsibility for enforced disappearances. [2]
The Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances has been set up to investigate cases in which persons are detained or killed by states in secret prisons and the corpses are disposed of so that nothing can be proven to them.
Women of the Association of Families of the Detained-Disappeared demonstrate in front of La Moneda Palace during the Pinochet military regime.. An enforced disappearance (or forced disappearance) is the secret abduction or imprisonment of a person with the support or acquiescence of a state followed by a refusal to acknowledge the person's fate or whereabouts with the intent of placing the ...
Michigan State Police's early probe in the Henagan disappearance Henagan was on bond for a traffic offense when he went missing. When he disappeared, a bail bondsman and a trooper came by the ...
SHAWNEE — Prosecutors on Thursday dropped the only murder case filed so far out of the hush-hush investigation of a white supremacist prison gang and a string of disappearances.. Jason Dean ...
The 24-year-old agriculture student says the men tore his shirt, used it to blindfold him and taunted him. Kenyan government critics mysteriously disappeared. They came back silenced
The convention is modelled heavily on the United Nations Convention Against Torture. "Enforced disappearance" is defined in Article 2 of the Convention as the arrest, detention, abduction or any other form of deprivation of liberty by agents of the State or by persons or groups of persons acting with the authorization, support or acquiescence of the State, followed by a refusal to acknowledge ...
A few months after his September 1982 disappearance, Noreen Gosch has said her son was spotted in Tulsa, Oklahoma, when a boy yelled to a woman for help before being dragged off by two men. [15] Over the years, several private investigators have assisted the Gosches with the search for their son.