this is zubaida, a student of 23 who wants to open her own business.emonstration in 2014, and convicted of offences including attending a banned protest. she says they were in the wrong place at the wrong time, and spent seven months injail but were later acquitted. she tells me that in 2016, zubaida was detained again at a police checkpoint, and disappeared. she was dumped by the roadside after 28 days, a changed girl. but her legal papers show the anguish did not end there. as zubaida was struggling to recover, she disappeared for the second time last april. her mother says neighbours saw her being taken by armed and masked police. she seeks comfort now in zubaida's bedroom. and in mementos from the past. zu baida's treasured keepsakes are just as she left them, waiting for her return. her mother refuses to give up hope, refuses to be silenced. we wanted to ask the authorities about her zu baida's disappearance and the other cases in this report. we approached the interior ministry, the foreign ministry and the state information service. no—one was p