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Human Rights Days for Iraqes
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Lebanon: Ruling Aids Families of “Disappeared”
BEIRUT November 4, 2009 – A decision by Lebanese judicial authorities is an encouraging first step toward recognizing the right of families of victims of enforced disappearances during the 1975-1990 war era to know what happened to them, five international human rights groups said today.

On October 23, 2009, the Juge des Référés (Judge of Summary Procedures of Beirut) issued a decision calling on the Council of Ministers’ secretariat to provide the court with the unpublished full report and results of the investigations conducted by the Official Commission of Investigation into the Fate of the Abducted and Disappeared Persons in 2000. A lawyer for the families of the disappeared said the fami...

Khiam center's activities at the Lebanese prisons
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