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enforced disappearances
![A Brief Chronicle of Enforced Disappearances in Tajikistan A Brief Chronicle of Enforced Disappearances in Tajikistan](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-tajikistan-flag-prison-1.jpg)
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 ‘Where is Sombath?’: After 10 Years, the Question Remains Hanging](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2014-12-16_01-01-58.jpg)
‘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 Thai Government Releases Exiled Lao Democracy Activist on Bail](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-2020-07-15-4.jpg)
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 A Year on, No Word on Fate of Abducted Thai Dissident](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-2021-06-04-3.jpg)
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 The Mysterious Disappearance of a Pakistani Journalist in Sweden](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-2020-04-07-6.jpg)
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 Asia’s Disappearing Activists](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-earth-2294995_1280.jpg)
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 Enforced Disappearances Met With Denials From Bangladesh](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-flag-2525861_1280.jpg)
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 Bangladesh: ‘Disappeared’ Reappear All the Time](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2015-01-16_20-52-25.jpg)
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 Rights Groups Criticize Bangladesh Government for 'Silence' on Enforced Disappearances](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2016-10-31_14-24-06.jpg)
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 China’s War on Dissent](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-rtx3aour.jpg)
China’s War on Dissent
By Cholpon Orozobekova
Detained activists have two choices: vanish or confess.
![Remembering the Disappeared: 1118 Days Without Ahmed Remembering the Disappeared: 1118 Days Without Ahmed](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-15114984697_1420746092_z.jpg)
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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