Overview

• Detentions Without a Trace documents 15 enforced disappearance cases up to June 15, 2025, of which 11 victims — including six foreigners — remain unlocated.
• Amnesty International says the DGCIM, SEBIN and National Guard have used arbitrary detentions without judicial orders to target government critics.
• Families of the disappeared face systematic denial of habeas corpus appeals and receive no information on their relatives’ fate or whereabouts.
• Notable victims held incommunicado include journalist Rory Branker, human rights lawyer Eduardo Torres and Spanish tourists José María Basoa and Andrés Martínez Adasme.
• Secretary General Agnès Callamard urged the ICC and national courts applying universal jurisdiction to pursue formal probes into these allegations