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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month agoMass grave reveals scale of unlawful killings by Egyptian army in Sinai, say campaigners
A mass grave near al-Arish contains surface and shallow-buried bodies, indicating enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings during Sinai conflict, reportedly linked to Egyptian forces.
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2 months agoDeadly detentions in Nicaragua: Another opponent dies in custody of Ortega-Murillo regime
Police officers from the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo detained him on both occasions for political reasons, specifically for being the legal advisor to the Nicaraguan Episcopal Conference, a collegiate body made up of several Catholic bishops hated by the co-presidential couple. His family did not know where he had been taken, and they were in a state of anxiety for 12 days, until Saturday, August 30, when they received a fateful call:
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fromwww.aljazeera.com
2 months agoRight to know': Advocates renew calls for justice for Syria's disappeared
Desperate families flocked to former detention centres, prisons, morgues, and mass grave sites to try to find their missing relatives after al-Assad's removal, and investigators gained unprecedented access to government documents, witness accounts and human remains. A limited number of detainees were released alive, while the fate of tens of thousands remained unknown, rendering them forcibly disappeared. This revealed a major tragedy that affected Syrian society as a whole.
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