More than 180,000 people have simply disappeared, reports the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Soon after Jia disappeared, reports from activist groups and Hong Kong media suggested he was connected to a letter earlier in March calling for Xi's resignation.
The clerk responded: "Your ticket of $200 has magically disappeared!", the report said.
But then the man went under the water, and when he resurfaced, Nicole had disappeared, the report said.
Doctors, surgeons, ambulance drivers and medical personnel seeking to aid the wounded or to deliver medical supplies have been arrested, tortured or murdered, or have disappeared, the report said.
If the effects of climate change weren't included in the model, the trends toward bigger seasonal variations in CO2 at Arctic latitudes disappeared, researchers report online today in Science.
Each time, they got a measurable electrical signal; when metals such as platinum replaced the semiconductor strip, the effect disappeared, they report in the 17 August online Physical Review Letters.
From January to September of last year, at least 34 companies in China reported that senior executives had seemingly disappeared, Bloomberg reported. .
A recent Bar Council report into gender and diversity noted that outright sexism had largely disappeared and reported few current examples of inappropriate behaviour and sexual harassment.
Both had disappeared while reporting on the conflict.
