A Young Baloch Student Forcibly Disappeared by Pakistani Forces in Nushki.
A Young Baloch Student Forcibly Disappeared by Pakistani Forces in Nushki.
Thousands vanish. Families are left with silence, fear, and unanswered questions.
My latest piece examines enforced disappearances in Pakistan, the legal voids that enable them, and the human cost behind the numbers.
Read here
https://salmanmehdi.substack.com/p/lives-without-trace
This is not a security state. This is an abduction factory. 10,000 plus disappearances, zero prosecutions, fake encounters sold as bravery, laws twisted to jail critics, and families left to rot in silence. If this was rule of law, someone would be in prison by now. It is not. It is organised impunity.
#EnforcedDisappearances #Pakistan #StateViolence #RuleOfFear #NoAccountability https://salmanmehdi.substack.com/p/the-machinery-of-silence
Judge finds government & police responsible for disappearing a citizen abducted in broad daylight by masked men in black SUVs.
No, this is not the USA, but Malaysia.
The damages awarded will be increased by the day until the government admits where Pastor Raymond Koh is.
His wife - or possibly widow - Susanna Liew has dedicated the legal victory to her husband and "to all victims of enforced disappearances."
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c797r2d3nwyo
#RaymondKoh #EnforcedDisappearances
International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances.
#EnforcedDisappearances#EndEnforcedDisappearances#StandUp4HumanRights#MissingPersons Today the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances is celebrated. This day is for the welfare of those people who have been separated from their loved ones. People who are forcibly taken away by some agents or someone else. Their families keep searching for their loved ones. The pain of such families is the…
is part of the 2,122 other unresolved cases still pending against the Pakistani state. Additionally, the International Commission of Jurists ( #ICJ ) says that #EnforcedDisappearances in Pakistan are no longer restricted to conflict zones alone, but it is “a tactic for suppressing dissenting voices wherever they are present”, and #IdrisKhattak was one such voice.
His brother, Dr. Owais Khattak has filed a case in the #PeshawarHighCourt after the kidnapping.
Reported by #AyeshaNazar
Russia has committed the crime against humanity of enforced disappearance, say investigators | HRC58 (UN Human Rights Council)
We must all join forces to support victims of enforced disappearances, their organisations, #HumanRights defenders and lawyers that support them.
I look forward to participating to the World Congress on #EnforcedDisappearances
👉Read our joint statement https://go.coe.int/haN03
RT by @blochbihler: UN Expert Ms Kolaković-Bojović @kolakius on #EnforcedDisappearances in #Migration addressing Rapporteur @J_Pahlke @socpace: "All @CoE states should ratify the #CED. It provides tools to clarify the fate of migrants victims of this crime." @blochbihler
🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/PACE_Migration/status/1734226900036259885#m
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