Sentence examples for disappeared persons from inspiring English sources

Husain Haqqani, Pakistan's ambassador to Washington, said in an e-mail on Wednesday that "the courts and the government are investigating cases of disappearances with a view to establishing the whereabouts of the disappeared persons and the circumstances under which the alleged disappearances took place".

In this expression, θ ik is the unknown relative risk of person disappearance or homicide and (E_{ik }) is the expected number of disappeared persons or homicides in municipality i. Risks are estimated by (indirectly) standardized rates (SRs).

A practice that historians believe began with the Nazi regime, "disappeared" persons are denied even the right to legally exist and be labeled a political prisoner.

The opposition National Coalition also called on the ISSG to establish a taskforce to deal with the plight of thousands of detainees and "forcibly disappeared persons" who are assumed to be held by the Syrian government.

Over the past five years, Calderón has presided over a bloodbath of historic proportions, with over 50,000 violent deaths (including at least 1,300 youth and children), 230,000 displaced people and at least 10,000 "disappeared" persons.

After nine and a half months of investigation, the commission produced "Nunca Más," which compiled evidence of about 9,000 "disappeared" persons who had been arbitrarily arrested, detained and tortured.

Mobley's Reprieve lawyer, Cori Crider, said she considered her client to be a "disappeared" person.

Yemeni officials have failed for the fourth time to produce at a court hearing an American citizen whose lawyers consider him a disappeared person.

Impunity in Pakistan is a concern "for the whole society," Mr. de Frouville said, before quoting the mother of a disappeared person who had asked the United Nations officials to convey a message to "all persons in public life" in Pakistan.

Lawyers for Mobley, detained in Yemen since he was snatched off the streets of Sana'a in 2010, say they have not seen him since February and consider him a disappeared person.

Kashmiri families had a "right to know the truth" and that "when the disappeared person is found to be dead, the right … to have the remains of their loved one returned to them, and to dispose of those remains according to their own tradition, religion or culture".