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Virginia N. Sherry

Virginia Sherry, associate director of Humans Rights Watch/Middle East, is the author of An Alliance Beyond the Law: Enforced Disappearances in Lebanon (Humans Rights Watch, May 1997).

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Disappearances

Some of the cases are old but certainly not forgotten. The most recent inquiry that I received about a “disappearance” in Lebanon came in April 1997 from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The caller was a Palestinian whose brother, Rushdi Rashid Hamdan Shihab, “disappeared” in Sidon in October 1987. “At 10 am,

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