Author: Ahmadh Booso

An enforced disappearance is referred to as the arrest, detention, abduction or any other form of deprivation of liberty by officials of the State or by people or groups acting with the authorisation and support of the State. This is further followed by a refusal to state the whereabouts and fate of the disappeared person. The victims of enforced disappearance are people who have literally disappeared; from their loved ones and their community and are never to be seen again. They are frequently tortured and many are killed or live in constant fear of being killed. They know their families…

A stampede at a football stadium in Indonesia has killed 125 people and leaving over 320 injured after the use of tear gas by the local police to subdue rival violence, the authorities said, in one of the world’s worst stadium disasters. Police Officers had fired tear gas in an attempt to disperse agitated supporters of the losing home side who had invaded the pitch after the final whistle in Malang, East Java, on the game night, the region’s police chief Nico Afinta told reporters. “It had gotten anarchic. They started attacking officers, they damaged cars,” Chief Nico said, adding…