El Salvador is forcibly disappearing US deportees, a Human Rights Watch report reveals, raising concerns about due process and the U.S.'s responsibility in safeguarding human rights abroad.
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@TexasObserver that's just a #ConcentrationCamp but 21st century.
#USpol #FuckICE #ICE #fascism #racism #commentary #Trump #ForcedDisappearance
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The continued crackdown on human rights defenders #HRDs has never stopped.
#SitongBridge #PengLifa, still under #ForcedDisappearance;
#ChowHangTung, still detained;
the #HKAlliance3 trial began on 22 January.
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@DeniseG you need to call them #ConcentrationCamps because they are just that!
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@georgetakei yeah, and #GITMO & #DiegoGarcia (alongside other #BlackSites) normalized that the #USA uses #torture and #ForcedDisappearance!Applying the same domestically is just the logical progression of #fascism!
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@tend2wobble I wish this article had no reason to exist due to lack of cases, yet here we are!
#USpol #sarcasm #comment #AmericanGestapo #Murder #ForcedDisappearance #ICE #Trump #M...
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@CrimethInc the #2A exists for this precise scenario btw.
#NotLegalAdvice #USpol #Trumpism #Fascism #FuckICE #ICE #paramilitary #ForcedDisappearance #Kidnapping #FailedState #ShitholeCountrly #US #USA
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#SNHR released on Saturday a comprehensive report documenting at least 1,108 cases of arbitrary arrest and detention in #Syria in 2025. The #SDF was responsible for the highest number of arrests, followed by the Central Authority.
#ForcedDisappearance #Abduction
‘Turkmen Authorities Are Carrying out a Systematic Campaign to Eliminate Independent Voices’
#Turkmenistan #ForcedDisappearance
@jbz anyone affected not quitting is part of the problem...
#USpol #Trump #CISA #fascism #Cyberfascism #ICE #ForcedDisappearance #racism
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Lawyer says family still in dark over Pamela Ling’s disappearance despite Home Ministry’s update #ehailingkidnappingincident #forceddisappearance #homeministry #malaysiananticorruptioncommission #missingwomankualalumpur #pamelaling #sangeetkaurdeo
Pakistan's military intelligence forcibly disappears three youth in Balochistan yespunjab.com?p=153089
#Balochistan #HumanRights #ForcedDisappearance #BalochYouth #JusticeForBaloch #BYCProtest #QuettaNews #EndImpunity #PakistanHumanRights #StopDisappearances
Horrendous. Another innocent person sent to the notorious, human rights abusive Salvadorian prison. So worried for this gay man who was seeking asylum due to credible homophobic threats against him in Venezuela. #FreeAndry #JusticeForAndry #ForcedDisappearance
Trump’s Border Czar Faces Backlash in His Hometown for Locking Up a Local Family theintercept.com/2025/04/04/t... #trump #ICE #disappeared #uspoli #TomHoman #ForcedDisappearance
"Mexico=Auschwitz" were some of the phrases at the Mexico City demonstration following the discovery of human remains and hundreds of personal items of victims of forced disappearance in Teuchitlán, Jalisco. #NationalMourning #Justice #Mexico #Teuchitlán #ForcedDisappearance
#ForcedDisappearance, kidnapping, #political imprisonment – take your pick. These terms all describe what has happened with the #Trump administration’s first arrest of #MahmoudKhalil for #ThoughtCrimes, something that should never happen in a #democracy
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200 pairs of shoes have been found at a #clandestine crematorium on a ranch in the #Mexican state of #Jalisco, in a disturbing #demonstration of the country’s crisis of #ForcedDisappearance related to organised crime
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![During Argentina's "Dirty War" (1976–1983), thousands of people were forcibly disappeared by the military regime, including many pregnant women and children. The fate of these children, often referred to as the "stolen children," was particularly tragic and emblematic of the era's human rights abuses.
### Key Facts About the Fate of the Children
1. **Children Born in Captivity or Taken with Their Parents**:
- Many pregnant women were abducted, detained in clandestine centers, and gave birth in captivity. After giving birth, these women were often murdered, and their babies were taken away[1][4][9].
- Some children were abducted alongside their parents and subsequently disappeared[3][9].
2. **Illegal Adoption**:
- An estimated 500 children were either born in detention centers or disappeared with their parents. Many of these children were illegally adopted by families connected to the military regime or its supporters[1][4][7].
- Birth certificates were often falsified to hide the children's true identities[7].
3. **Efforts to Identify and Recover the Children**:
- The Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo (Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo) have been instrumental in locating and identifying these stolen children. Using DNA testing and other methods, they have identified 131 of the estimated 500 missing children as of 2022[4][7].
- Some recovered individuals have reconnected with their biological families, while others have resisted learning about their origins or refused DNA testing[1][2].
4. **Legal Accountability**:
- Cases have been brought against those involved in kidnapping and illegal adoption. For example, individuals who knowingly adopted stolen children or facilitated such adoptions have faced legal consequences[7][9].
- High-profile cases, such as that of María Eugenia Sampallo, highlight the ongoing struggle for justice. Sampallo sued her adoptive parents after learning they had illegally adopted her following her parents' disappearance[7].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3epzqefaicyxkh2z3fywbmy5/bafkreigvsawvnd73yvchhd4yko2wjfifaj6lnvbbnd5lcj6v474isycgcq)
During Argentina's "Dirty War" (1976–1983), thousands of people were forcibly disappeared by the military regime, including many pregnant women and children. The fate of these children, often referred to as the "stolen children," was particularly tragic and emblematic of the era's human rights abuses. ### Key Facts About the Fate of the Children 1. **Children Born in Captivity or Taken with Their Parents**: - Many pregnant women were abducted, detained in clandestine centers, and gave birth in captivity. After giving birth, these women were often murdered, and their babies were taken away[1][4][9]. - Some children were abducted alongside their parents and subsequently disappeared[3][9]. 2. **Illegal Adoption**: - An estimated 500 children were either born in detention centers or disappeared with their parents. Many of these children were illegally adopted by families connected to the military regime or its supporters[1][4][7]. - Birth certificates were often falsified to hide the children's true identities[7]. 3. **Efforts to Identify and Recover the Children**: - The Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo (Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo) have been instrumental in locating and identifying these stolen children. Using DNA testing and other methods, they have identified 131 of the estimated 500 missing children as of 2022[4][7]. - Some recovered individuals have reconnected with their biological families, while others have resisted learning about their origins or refused DNA testing[1][2]. 4. **Legal Accountability**: - Cases have been brought against those involved in kidnapping and illegal adoption. For example, individuals who knowingly adopted stolen children or facilitated such adoptions have faced legal consequences[7][9]. - High-profile cases, such as that of María Eugenia Sampallo, highlight the ongoing struggle for justice. Sampallo sued her adoptive parents after learning they had illegally adopted her following her parents' disappearance[7].
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#NeverAgain
#MemoryTruthJustice
#HumanRightsAbuses
#IllegalAdoptions
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#DNAForJustice
#StolenIdentities
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The continued crackdown on human rights defenders #HRDs has never stopped.
#SitongBridge #PengLifa, still under #ForcedDisappearance
#ZhangZhan, detained 3 months after release
