RSF refers case of missing Maldives journalist to UN
In a letter to the chairs of the working groups, RSF’s Secretary Christophe Deloire said: “Enforced disappearances are the consequences of criminal acts that violate several human rights – the right to life, the right to freedom and the right to due process.”
31 Aug 2015, 9:00 AM
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has referred to the UN the case of missing Maldives journalist Ahmed Rilwan, now missing for more than a year.
The global press freedom group have asked the UN working group on enforced or involuntary disappearances and the UN working group on arbitrary detention to open or re-open investigations into missing journalists in ten countries.
These include the Maldives, Iraq, Eritrea, Syria, Mexico, Colombia, Iran and Turkmenistan.
The petitions, filed two days before the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances (August 30), urges the UN to “initiate the relevant procedures with the countries that are breaking international law in this area.”
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