We must act on behalf of hundreds of Syrian detainees who appear to have been subjected to enforced disappearance — including Mohamed Bashir Arab, the doctor whose
mother and sister continue to rise and fall at the hope of information
about his whereabouts. Amnesty International has been documenting cases
of enforced disappearance in Syria since the late 1970s. The number of
disappearances has increased notably since the beginning of the Syrian
uprising in 2011.