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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 ...
The interim government said this week the commission will "investigate enforced disappearances that occurred" since Jan. 1, 2010 "allegedly involving members of the police" and arms of the ...
The case marked the first time a Swiss court had heard a case involving enforced disappearance. The defendant had sought asylum in Switzerland, arguing his life was at risk in Belarus due to his ...
Maria Ridulph's Disappearance. ... McCullough, is a 76-year-old former security guard who was sentenced in 2012 to a life sentence in the 1957 slaying of 7-year-old Maria Ridulph in Sycamore, Ill.
On October 10, 2014, the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances; Christof Heyns, Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions; and Juan E. Méndez, Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, released a joint statement calling the Iguala ...
In April 2019, U.S. Congressman Jim McGovern said the Panchen Lama "will mark his 30th birthday as one of the world's longest-held prisoners of conscience", and referred to his enforced disappearance as a violation of the religious freedom of Tibetan Buddhists while also stating that the alternative Panchen Lama has been victimized by China as ...
This summer, more than 20 years after Alissa Turney’s disappearance and presumed death, her stepfather Michael was acquitted of murder charges due to lack of evidence. An Arizona man was cleared ...
The crimes of forced disappearance in Chile, were committed by various military formations of the Chilean Armed Forces and the Carabineers during the 1970s and 1980s –particularly the Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional (DINA). The problem was officially recognized first in 1990.