@GossiTheDog Enforced disappearance is a crime against humanity under the Rome Statute. El Salvador has ratified the Rome Statute.

@tessarakt @GossiTheDog El Salvador apparently doesn't care so long as paid though, perhaps more interestingly the flights seem to cross through Belize and Honduras who are also signatories and would in theory have the right if not duty to require future flights via their airspace land for inspection.

I'm not saying they are likely to, and certainly not that it would go well for them, but an interesting thought isn't it? And do they become complicit if they don't?

@zbrown @GossiTheDog well, my point was that the part of the crimes occurring in El Salvador enables the jurisdiction of the ICC, which could issue arrest warrants.

Maybe something https://www.ohchr.org/en/treaty-bodies/ced should investigate.

@tessarakt @zbrown @GossiTheDog Do they?

The way I remember ICAO rules, there is a right to fly-over, in the sense a country can grant it or not, but then you have the right to fly-over, and that's basically is it.

That's why Belarus had to fake a terrorist bomb threat on an EU-to-EU (Greece-Lithuania) flight that was passing Belarus airspace (shortest == cheapest route) to get an airliner to land, so they could arrest a dissident.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/belarus-forces-vilnius-bound-ryanair-plane-land-detain-blogger-2021-05-23/

Belarus scrambles fighter to force airliner to land, arrests opponent

Belarusian authorities scrambled a fighter jet and flagged what turned out to be a false bomb alert to force a Ryanair plane to land on Sunday and then detained an opposition-minded journalist who was on board, drawing criticism from across Europe.

@yacc143 @zbrown @GossiTheDog wasn't this a government flight? Those need to be approved. Sometimes the procedure is that they have to be announced as government flights in the flight plan, and are considered approved if there is no objection.

@tessarakt @zbrown @GossiTheDog The point is none of the South American countries want to really piss off the Glorious Leader, and draw his attention on themselves.

Belarus was able to do this, a) because they were already the villain under sanctions, b) under Russian protection

So the cost of this showing the middle finger to the west action was tiny for Belarus.

@GossiTheDog yeah, you might want to try a global map for that project. 😬
@GossiTheDog only complete morons will be feeling safer with all these people being locked away. They can't possibly be next to dissapear.
@GossiTheDog I appreciate this initiative and also see that they seem to have limited how they're defining political motivation. From my observation, every seizure we experienced in Massachusetts as part of the week-long series of raids last week was politically motivated. But only the Tufts University student is on the list.

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Unacceptable that this happen, good to collect evidence on it…

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This is very clearly the beginning of a genocide.

@trabex @GossiTheDog multiple genocides. Kentucky just re legalized conversion therapy.
@GossiTheDog can you say democratic oversight?
@GossiTheDog "Terrorist Confinement Center" is some peak dystopian naming. In a world where they could have just called it "holding cell" or "jail" or "prison", deliberately choosing "terrorist confinement center" speaks volumes.
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It's now at 246...that's since it was posted two hours ago.
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@GossiTheDog Are you counting people who were deported to Costa Rica, Panama and Guatemala? At least in Costa Rica and Panama, they are locked without their documents and without access to lawyers, the press, etcetera.

@GossiTheDog you need to read this thread of mine on the on-going work to find Los Desaparecidos from Argentina and Chile:

https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/113997587143246072

@GossiTheDog 🙏 I had a feeling someone would be tracking this.
@GossiTheDog fuck this is bleak. We knew it was coming and see anecdotal stories, but just seeing it is so crushing.
@GossiTheDog that is disgraceful that there is such a thing, The US is finished

@GossiTheDog the fact that t*his exists* ans a real site and has real reason to be is the problem!

  • Not shure if that one born U.S. citizen has been accounted for and/or has been released yet.

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😳

…also, "Country of Origin: ALEGERIA" ?

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This is the whole ballgame…folks.
W/o the “Rule of Law”…
Those cherished rights we brag about…
Just pretty words.

Say their names.
#disappeared #ice
#detention #marcorubio #trump

@GossiTheDog Just wondering how long before tableau gets a call.