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Jurist UN rights experts welcome Lebanon law on enforced disappearances

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The UN Working Group on enforced or involuntary disappearances said on Monday that “a new law against enforced disappearances in Lebanon can be a major breakthrough” and urged that the law be implemented effectively in order “to give victims and their families access to truth and justice.”

The law was passed on November 13, 2018, and “establishes a commission to investigate enforced disappearances with the power to access and collect information, carry out exhumations and identifications of burial sites and hand over to relatives the remains of their loved ones.”

The experts in the working group stated that they were ready to help the law be effectively implemented, and that the law “may help bring truth and justice to the families of the disappeared.”

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