On 8 January 2015, Alkarama sent an urgent appeal to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) and to the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (

On 5 January 2015, Alkarama sent a communication to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism regarding the case of Hanene Chaouch, a young volunteer advocating in favour of orphans - held and tortured by the Tunisian authorities under the pretext of the fight against terrorism led by the Tunisian state for the last few years.

On 6 January 2015, Alkarama sent an urgent appeal to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) to demand the immediate release of an Egyptian minor, Seif Al Islam Osama Shousha, arbitrarily arrested and detained since 8 March 2014, on the basis of fabricated charges. Having never been brought to appear before a civil court, Shousha now faces a trial before a military court, in violation of international human rights law.

Arbitrary arrest

On 11 December 2014, Alkarama sent a communication to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) regarding the cases of five Egyptian citizens currently detained for their political views, Hudhayfah Magdy Abdel Moneim Abdel Fattah; Hossam Zaki Mohammed Mohammed; Ahmed Mahmoud Ahmed Hassan; Mahmoud Mohamed Mohamed Al Saghir; Mohamed Ahmed; and Mohamed Ibrahim.

Alkarama welcomes the release, on 21 December 2014, of Mouhayadine Yacin Mohamed and Said Charmake Darar, President and Spokesperson of the Mouvement des Jeunes de l'Opposition (MJO), for which Alkarama had sent an

On 5 December 2014, Alkarama sent an urgent appeal to the United Nations Special Rapporteur against Torture (SRT) regarding the case of a young woman arrested and tortured by the security services under the pretext of fighting against terrorism.

On 24 November 2014, on the eve of the second Global Human Rights Forum held in Marrakech between 27 and 30 November 2014, Morocco ratified the Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture (OPCAT), giving hope to see the country on the road to a genuine implementation of the fundamental rights of persons deprived of liberty.

On 19 December 19 2014, Alkarama sent a communication to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health on the case of Mohammed Al Ferchichi, a 36-year-old worker, arrested and tortured by the Tunisian authorities.

During its 112th session in Geneva from 7 to 31 October 2014, the United Nations Human Rights Committee issued its decision in the case of Saleh Salem Hmeed and several members of his family, who were arrested, detained and tortured by the security services of Gaddafi's former regime.

Background

On 3 November 1986, after notifying the police of the discovery of one of his neighbours' body in a well on his agricultural land, Hmeed was arrested and severely tortured by the police to make him confess that he was the author of his neighbour's murder.

On 19 December 2014 Alkarama – together with the Association of Human Rights Defenders in Iraq (AHRDI), the General Federation of Iraqi Women (GFIW), the Human Rights Division at the Association of Muslims Scholars in Iraq, the Iraqi Commission for Human Rights (ICHR), and the Organisation for Justice & Democracy in Iraq (OJDI) – sent a joint report to the Sub Committee on Accreditation (SCA) of the International Coordinating Co