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Telling people not to break the law: criminal?
Washington Post: FBI seeks interviews with Democrats whom Trump called ‘traitors’ The Trump administration has aggressively sought to punish lawmakers who encouraged service members to disobey unlawful orders. By Noah Robertson and Jeremy Roebuck
November 26, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances About enforced disappearance An enforced disappearance is considered to be the arrest, detention, abduction or any other form of deprivation of liberty by agents of the State or by persons or groups of persons acting with the authorization, support or acquiescence of the State, followed by a refusal to acknowledge the deprivation of liberty or by concealment of the fate or whereabouts of the disappeared person, which place such a person outside the protection of the law (Article 2 of the ICPED and Preamble of the Declaration on the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance) It is characterized by three cumulative elements (defined in A/HRC/16/48/Add.3): Deprivation of liberty against the will of the person; Involvement of government officials, at least by acquiescence; Refusal to acknowledge the deprivation of liberty or concealment of the fate or whereabouts of the disappeared person. A disappearance has a doubly paralysing impact: on the victim, who is removed from the protection of the law, frequently subjected to torture and in constant fear for their lives; and on their families, ignorant of the fate of their loved ones, their emotions alternating between hope and despair, wondering and waiting, sometimes for years, for news that may never come. Enforced disappearance has frequently been used as a strategy to spread terror within societies. The feeling of insecurity generated by this practice is not limited to the close relatives of the disappeared, but also affects their communities and society as a whole.
November 14, 2025 at 5:14 PM