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Title El Salvador: Reports of a mass kidnapping of doctors and staff at the Institute of Cardiology in San Salvador on or around 7 March 2001
Publisher Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Country El Salvador
Publication Date 26 February 2003
Citation / Document Symbol SLV41275.E
Reference 5
Cite as Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, El Salvador: Reports of a mass kidnapping of doctors and staff at the Institute of Cardiology in San Salvador on or around 7 March 2001, 26 February 2003, SLV41275.E, available at: http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/3f7d4e1ee.html [accessed 5 June 2012]
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El Salvador: Reports of a mass kidnapping of doctors and staff at the Institute of Cardiology in San Salvador on or around 7 March 2001

Reports of a kidnapping or hostage-taking of doctors and staff at the Institute of Cardiology in San Salvador on or around 7 March 2001 could not be found among the published sources consulted by the Research Directorate.

This Response was prepared after researching publicly accessible information currently available to the Research Directorate within time constraints. This Response is not, and does not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular claim to refugee status or asylum. Please find below the list of sources consulted in researching this Information Request.

Sources Consulted

Central America Report [Guatemala City]. March-April 2001

Country Reports 2001. 2002

El Diario de Hoy/El Salvador.com. 4-13 March 2001

IRB Databases

Latin American Weekly Report [London]. March-April 2001

Latinamerica Press [Lima]. March-April 2001

Probidad, El Salvador. Resumen Semanal de Noticias. March 2001

Internet sites and search engines, including:

Amnesty International

El Faro [San Salvador]. Searchable archives

Human Rights Watch

Proceso [San Salvador]. Searchable archives

Copyright notice: This document is published with the permission of the copyright holder and producer Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (IRB). The original version of this document may be found on the offical website of the IRB at http://www.irb-cisr.gc.ca/en/. Documents earlier than 2003 may be found only on Refworld.

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