In international human rights law, a forced disappearance (or enforced disappearance) occurs when a person is secretly abducted or imprisoned by a state or political organization or by a third party with the authorization, support, or acquiescence of a state or political organization, followed by a refusal to acknowledge the person's fate and whereabouts, with the intent of placing the victim outside the protection of the law.

According to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, which came into force on 1 July 2002, when committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed at any civilian population, a "forced disappearance" qualifies as a crime against humanity and, thus, is not subject to a statute of limitations. On 20 December 2006, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance.

Often forced disappearance implies murder. The victim in such a case is first abducted, then illegally detained, and often tortured; the victim is then killed and the body hidden. Typically, a murder will be surreptitious, with the corpse disposed of in such a way as to never be found, so that the person apparently vanishes. The party committing the murder has deniability, as there is no body to prove that the victim has actually died.

Ilias/ Ilyas Ali (এম . ইলিয়াস আলী ) is a Bangladeshi politician and a former member of the Jatiyo Sangshad (Bangladesh Parliament).He came under spotlight after his much talked political rivalry with former finance minister M Saifur Rahman.He was student leader of Dhaka University and he participated in anti autocrat Hussain Mohammad Ershad movement during Martial law. In 1987 he was expelled from Dhaka University including 9 others student leader of JCD (Student wing of BNP) forever on charge of violence in campus. Now he is organizing secretary of Bangladesh Nationalist Party. He was born on 1 January 1961 in the renowned village of Ramdhana, Biswanath, District Sylhet, in an eminent Muslim family. His father's name was Al Hajj Muhammad Wasib Ali and his mother's name is Begum Surjaban Bibi. His paternal grandfather's name was Shah Karamotullah Talukdar and the name of his great grandfather was Shadullah Talukdar and great great grandfather's name was Sheikh Danis Muhammad. Sheik Danis's father's name was Sheikh Dinu Muhammad who was a landlord and famous person for his area . But after fall down of last Nabab Siraj-Ud-Doula the British East India company had took over power of Bengal . After taking power they had formed new law and imposed unreasonable taxes on nation . which was repression on the Bengali Nation . He protested and organized the repressive people then revolted against the British East India Company. At this stage the British East India Company had seized all land properties of Sheik Dinu Muhammad. But he did not compromise with British administration. Ilias Ali's maternal grandmothers forefather was associate of Hazrat Shahjalal (Rahmotulla Alaihee) [3].

Sam Mahmoudi Sarabi is the editor for the Idea & history and book services of Shargh Newspaper who has been summoned to the Intelligence Ministry on February 14th 2011 and has been in detention since then.

According to the Human Rights House of Iran, there is no information as to the reason for his arrest and the alleged charges. His summons order had taken place over the phone.

Mahmoudi had been arrested during the Ashura events and was held in detention for 45 days. The charges against him are propaganda against the regime and insulting the leader, as well as writing the song “I Confess…” and possessing a copy of Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses.

Mahmoudi has told his interrogators he acquired the controversial novel because he planned to publish a special article on the anniversary of the death sentence issued by Ayatollah Khomeini against Rushdie.

Mahmoudi was arrested for more than a month during the protests that followed the disputed re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and was released on a $300,000 Dollars.