US citizen Adrian Martinez has disappeared!!! Does anyone know where Adrian Martinez is??? #ICE #Kidnapping #Disapeared #Gestapo #DeathSquads #Nasis #KKK #Fascists #Fasscism #AntiFascim #AntiFa #WhiteSupremacists

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Copied from linked reddit thread - it goes on to add more sites and there are lot of useful comments and further sites too.

" For those of you that are concerned you might be "Disappeared"
Protest Safety

There is a thing called a dead man's switch. If god forbid you are disappeared, or held without access to an electronic device for a period of time that you specify, this site can send a series of emails and messages to whomever you want. It expects a periodic check in, and when you miss it it will fire off the emails. It has to be configured for your timings if you want swift response, but it's all configurable.

Use it to inform loved ones that you've likely gone missing, and that you were outspoken against this government. Use it to inform people that you recently attended a protest and did not make it back from said protest.

Take away their power to silence you. "

#Disapeared #USpol #Protest

https://www.reddit.com/r/50501/comments/1jo72xt/for_those_of_you_that_are_concerned_you_might_be/

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#Torture
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#Repression

Latest report from the internationalist women's delegation in #Bakur (the part of #Kurdistan within #Turkey's borders)

At the time we are typing this, the final numbers about people arrested during Newroz celebration last Thursday go up to 204, 38 of them children. The reasons of arrest are for wearing Kurdish traditional clothes and carrying red-yellow-green flags under the charges of "propagandizing for a terrorist organization” and “opposing the Law on Demonstrations and Marches No. 2911”,

Today, we visited the Bar Association of Lawyers, where a big banner with the picture of Tahir Elçi receives the women delegation. Tahir Elçi was assassinated in 2015 while he was asking for the ceasefire in the Sur district. We also visited the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey and the Human Rights Association of Diyarbakir. The three of them talked to us about the importance, in a context like this, to pursue these cases regardless the acknowledgment about the judiciary institutions in Turkey, the European Union and the United Nations letting them down. A lawyer in the HHRR Association of Diyarbakir stated "We don't want to give up the legal resistance. We know that the EU Human Rights Court is not the most effective but we won't give up the legal race. Our aim is to prevent next cases to happen"

In the six months between the 1st of March and the 1st of August of 2021 833 cases were opened against Human Rights Advocates and 303 cases ended up in economic sanctions.

Among the amount of work that these organisations do together with the legal cases are the support to people that suffered torture. Teams of lawyers, psychologists and social workers work hard not only to help victims to overcome their trauma but, also they try to empower people since this torture is meant to cut them out of struggle. The social work approach is based on allowing them "to be part of society again but also part of activism", said a social worker of the Turkish Human Rights Foundation.

Cases of #torture and harassment of human rights are completely impune in Turkey as there are not processes in place to even enact the sentences in favor of the people tortured so torturers carry on with their normal life.

But there are also the disapeared people. Around the world, we have cases of tones of people disapearing in strange circumstances and the governments doing nothing about it whilst human rights advocates have fair reasons to think about violations of human rights: the mothers of the Mayo Square en Argentina, the mass graves in Spain, the teachers in Ayotzinapa, the asylum seekers children in the UK... In Turkey, the official figures say that 4000 people #disapeared in the 90s. A political assessor of the DEM party corrected that figure as 17000. They showed us their room with the files they have about disapeared people. A lot of the mothers that were applicants for these cases already died and the cases are followed by second and third generations of relatives.

On the picture above, you can see the files of the disapeared people in Turkey that the Human Rights Association of Diyarbakir custody in their offices. Tomorrow we will go with them to the protest they do every Saturday to ask for a solution about these cases.

Amed, 21.03.2024

Human Rights Foundation of Turkey:
https://en.tihv.org.tr/reports/

Human Rights Association of Diyarbakir
https://www.haklaradestek.org/en/node