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For three years after Nicaraguan Indigenous leader Brooklyn Rivera was arrested, his friends and family had no idea where he was being held, if he was OK, or whether he was even still alive. Then, last week, the government released photos of 73-year-old Rivera in hospital, emaciated and intubated. Two …
Read More »His brother was disappeared by the Assad regime. 13 years later, leaked photos confirm how he died
WARNING: This story contains images of dead bodies and graphic physical injuries. Thaer al-Najjar and his family had searched for his brother Imad in vain for 13 years, ever since he was violently arrested in 2012 by the security forces of Syria’s former Assad regime. After the government was overthrown …
Read More »Mexico City plans exhumation of 6,600 bodies in search for disappeared
Mexico City began a project this week to exhume and identify thousands of bodies from an area of common graves in a municipal cemetery as part of a multi-agency strategy to deal with its growing list of people registered as disappeared. The exhumation project is the largest of its kind …
Read More »Ukrainian couple paid lawyer $3K to help them stay in Canada but say she ‘disappeared.’ It’s not the 1st time
Finding refuge in Canada from war-torn Ukraine, couple Oksana Hrabova and Oleg Lomanov say they didn’t think twice about trusting their Hamilton immigration lawyer to help them stay permanently. Last summer, they met Victoria Bruyn in her downtown office and paid her a retainer of nearly $3,000 to help them …
Read More »How $10K of cannabis was delivered to the wrong Toronto store — and then disappeared
Receiving cannabis shipments has become a routine practice for Taylor Caldwell: she gets a call with the approximate time of delivery, it arrives, she signs the paperwork, then adds it to the store’s inventory. But Caldwell, general manager of Kindling Cannabis Leaside, said the delivery on Dec. 28, 2024 was …
Read More »The Apprentice nearly disappeared over Hollywood’s fear. Is that the future for political films?
Daniel Bekerman never set out to produce a political film. That’s despite the fact that The Apprentice, the movie his Toronto-based production company Scythia Films took on, is about one of the most polarizing political figures in recent memory: former U.S. president and current presidential candidate Donald Trump. It’s also despite the …
Read More »Property dig fails to find traces of woman who disappeared 51 years ago: Ontario police
Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) say the search of property north of Peterborough, Ont., earlier this week failed to find a trace of a woman who has been reported missing for over 51 years. On Tuesday Peterborough County OPP searched a property in North Kawartha Township as part of their ongoing …
Read More »Property of woman who disappeared 51 years ago searched by Ontario police
Now over 51 years since the disappearance of a woman just north of Peterborough, Ont., investigators returned to her family’s property on Tuesday to conduct a search. Peterborough County OPP say 45-year-old Francis Muriel Harris (nee Johnson) was last seen on April 21, 1972, at her home on Highway 28 …
Read More »China is barring diplomats from trial of Canadian tycoon who disappeared 5 years ago, Ottawa says
Chinese authorities refused to let Canadian diplomats attend the trial of a Chinese-born Canadian tycoon who disappeared from Hong Kong five years ago, Canada’s government said Tuesday. Xiao Jianhua was last seen at a Hong Kong hotel in January 2017 and was believed to have been taken to the mainland by …
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