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

#EnforcedDisappearances #Pakistan #HumanRights

Lives without trace

Enforced disappearances in Pakistan reveal a quiet war between unchecked power and basic rights.

The Independent Prism

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

The Machinery of Silence

The states of Pakistan specialize in ensuring enforcement of disappearance in broad daylight, deaths through fake encounters, and speaking online at one’s peril.

The Independent Prism

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

Raymond Koh: Wife of abducted Malaysian pastor wins landmark lawsuit against state

The high court held the government and police liable for what will be the largest sum for damages in Malaysian history.

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…

https://itsmostamazingindia.wordpress.com/2025/08/30/international-day-of-the-victims-of-enforced-disappearances/

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…

Vibrant Vitality

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)

https://piefed.social/post/556276

Russia has committed the crime against humanity of enforced disappearance, say investigators | HRC58 (UN Human Rights Council)

>On 19 March 2025, Erik Møse, chair of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine, updated the Human Rights Council on the find…

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

#WECD #ICPPED

👉Read our joint statement https://go.coe.int/haN03

Victims of enforced disappearances require urgent responses and concerted action: Forthcoming World Congress offers unique opportunity, experts say

Council of Europe

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://www.ohchr.org/en/treaty-bodies/ced/general-comment-no-1-enforced-disappearances-context-migration

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/PACE_Migration/status/1734226900036259885#m

[2023-12-11 15:01 UTC]

⚡️ Turbat witnesses protest demanding return of Naushad Baloch, abducted by Pak Army. Rally organized by family and Baloch Solidarity Committee highlights enforced disappearances in Balochistan. Family appeals for intervention and swift action to ensure Naushad's safe return. Demand for answers and action persists until reunion with loved ones. #Balochistan #EnforcedDisappearances https://www.riskmap.com/incidents/1877996/articles/187304739/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
Turbat Erupts In Protest, Demands Return Of Naushad Baloch Abducted By Pak Army – Security Risk – RiskMap

Turbat, a city in Balochistan, witnessed a fervent rally as the family of Naushad Baloch, along with the Baloch Solidarity Committee, raised the...