We keep the record the state would rather erase.

Why this exists

Every family of a disappeared person hears some version of the same sentence: there is no record. No arrest entry, no case file, no proof that the person was ever in custody. Without a record, there is nothing to bring to a court, nothing to give a journalist, nothing for a diplomat to raise. The disappearance becomes a private grief that the state can deny forever.

That is a design flaw on purpose. My Safe Voice exists to close it. We take the scattered threads, court orders, newspaper lines, police statements, family accounts, human-rights reports, and assemble them into a documented, sourced record that survives even when a file is torn up.

This project is not a substitute for a lawyer, and it is not a political party. It is a public ledger. Its power comes from one thing only: that everything on it is true, attributed, and checkable.

How we work: our methodology

Credibility is the whole asset. If one entry on this site is invented or wrong, everything else becomes dismissible, including the real cases. So we follow a strict process.

1. We document; we do not invent

Every case published on The Wall of the Missing is sourced. A case is included only if it can be traced to at least one of: published reporting by an established news outlet; documentation by a recognised human-rights body such as Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) or Defence of Human Rights (DHR); a court order or filing; or a direct, verifiable account from a family that we have been able to corroborate.

2. We attribute and date everything

Each entry names its source and the date it was reported, and links to the original wherever one exists online. Where the original source cannot be linked, it is named. We do not present an allegation as an established fact; we present it as an allegation made by a named source, which is what it is.

3. Consent and safety come first

We never publish information that would expose a living person to greater risk (an address, a route, a current location, a witness identity) without informed, understood consent. If a person may still be in detention, we are deliberately vaguer, not more detailed.

4. We correct the record

If we get something wrong, we say so. Corrections are shown on the affected entry rather than quietly deleted. If a wrongly reported case is resolved or disproven, we update it with the same prominence as the original.

What we do not do

• We do not publish unverified rumours, even sympathetic ones. Rumours are how a movement's credibility is destroyed.
• We do not incite violence, and we do not advocate armed action. The record is the weapon.
• We do not sell data, take advertising that would compromise the archive, or publish a case purely because it is dramatic.

What we cover

• Enforced disappearances, unlawful detention and unacknowledged custody, including so-called "missing persons" cases.
• Custodial torture and ill-treatment: the failure of Pakistan's legal system to criminalise enforced disappearance as a standalone crime.
• Landmines and unexploded ordnance: injuries, deaths and the demand for clearance and compensation, especially in Kurram and the border districts.
• Rights of the displaced and the detained: legal remedies, the rights of families, and the limits of what the state may lawfully do.