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enforced disappearances
A Brief Chronicle of Enforced Disappearances in Tajikistan
By Catherine Putz
When a government captures, imprisons, or kills a detainee and refuses to acknowledge the person’s whereabouts, it generates a very specific kind of terror for other dissidents and their families.
‘Where is Sombath?’: After 10 Years, the Question Remains Hanging
By Sebastian Strangio
Despite a decade of calls from U.N. officials and human rights groups, there is still no word as to the ultimate fate of Lao civil society leader Sombath Somphone.
Thai Government Releases Exiled Lao Democracy Activist on Bail
By Sebastian Strangio
But Khoukham Keomanivong's arrest on the weekend was a sign of increasing risks facing foreign dissidents in Thailand.
A Year on, No Word on Fate of Abducted Thai Dissident
By Sebastian Strangio
The rights group Amnesty International calls the Cambodian government's investigation “negligent.”
The Mysterious Disappearance of a Pakistani Journalist in Sweden
By Shah Meer Baloch
“The dead don't haunt me as much as missing do,” Sajid Hussain once told me. Now he’s among the missing himself.
Asia’s Disappearing Activists
By Josef Benedict
Activists remain disappeared in at least 13 countries in the region. How can we secure justice for Asia’s disappeared?
Enforced Disappearances Met With Denials From Bangladesh
By Meenakshi Ganguly
Bangladesh authorities need to stop feigning ignorance to the horrific experiences of those who have been forced to disappear.
Bangladesh: ‘Disappeared’ Reappear All the Time
By Sajeeb Wazed
The prime minister's son responds to concerns over enforced disappearances.
Rights Groups Criticize Bangladesh Government for 'Silence' on Enforced Disappearances
By Faisal Mahmud
Bangladesh is accused of ignoring the issue in a report before its UN human rights review.
China’s War on Dissent
By Cholpon Orozobekova
Detained activists have two choices: vanish or confess.
Remembering the Disappeared: 1118 Days Without Ahmed
By Lorena Cotza
On International Day of the Disappeared, the story of one vanished man in the Maldives.
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