Forced disappearance

Russian state agents have committed serious abuses, including torture, in Crimea, the U.N. said Sept. 25, warning that the rights situation in the annexed peninsula had "significantly deteriorated" under Moscow's occupation.

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - The Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo organization, the human rights organization dedicated to protecting children's rights and finding the true identities of babies stolen during Argentina's last dictatorship (1976-1983), announced that it has found the 122nd 'grandchild,' reuniting the man with his real family 40 years after his birth.

Almost 26 years after the fall of Communism in Albania,  those persecuted by the intolerant Stalinist regime have little hope that the state will ever identify around 6,000 remains of people who were executed or died in regime camps and prisons.

Writing from inside prison, the mastermind behind the disbanded November 17 terror group, Alexandros Yotopoulos, claimed that eight members of the former organization remained at large.

No statute of limitations can be applied to cases regarding disappearances in custody, the Turkish Justice Ministry has said following a parliamentary question by main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) Istanbul lawmaker Sezgin Tanrıkulu. 

Police on Monday began excavation work on the island of Kos in the Dodecanese on Monday in the search for Ben Needham, a British toddler who went missing in 1991.

A new line of inquiry by the South Yorkshire Police suggests the 21-month-old may have died near a farmhouse his grandparents were renovating in July 1991.

British police start excavations on Monday on Kos island, following a new clue that the body of two-year-old Ben Needham, who disappeared in 1991, might be buried there.

Another dead body has been found on Tuesday in the Danube, stated the Chief of Border Police, Dimitar Chorbadzhiev. It is not clear yet whether this is another Iraqi person like the people who disappeared on September 9.

U.S. State Department spokesman John Kirby's comments regarding the Human Rights Watch (HRW) report on southeastern Turkey "do not reflect reality," Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman Tanju Bilgiç said on July 14.

A delegation of the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances has voiced concern over what it described as the "increasingly worrisome situation" in southeast Turkey and its impact on human rights.