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On 20 November 2014, Alkarama sent an Urgent Appeal to the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances as well as to the Special Rapporteur on torture on the case of Amer Alshava, a Turkish national, academician and businessman who was abducted on 2 October 2014 at Dubai's Airport, UAE. His whereabouts remain unknown to date.

On 6 November 2014, Alkarama sent an urgent appeal to the Special Rapporteur on Torture (SRT) concerning the case of Sabri Ahmed Mehdi, a father of six detained and tortured since his arrest by the Egyptian authorities on 22 July 2014.

On 20 November 2014, Alkarama sent an urgent appeal to the United Nations' Special Rapporteur on Torture (SRT), Juan Méndez, to bring to his attention the case of Bader Tossi Khorasani, a 25-year-old Iranian citizen born in Syria where he lived all his life, who faces imminent deportation to Iran where he could be subjected to further torture or even the death penalty.

On 17 November 2014, Alkarama sent an urgent appeal the United Nations Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) regarding the case of Yasser Ahmed Ahmed Abu Eita, a 23-year-old Egyptian citizen, disappeared since his arrest by the police forces in the streets of Damietta Port on 2 November 2014.

On 22 October 2014, Alkarama and AFD International wrote to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) to alert them on the case of Mohamed Abdelhamid Abdelhamid Kharaba, a university professor arbitrarily detained in Alexandria's Al-Hadra prison since his arrest on 24 November 2013. His family claims that Kharaba's fight against corruption at the University of Alexandria is the reason for his arrest.

On the occasion of the 24th session of the United Nations Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture which will be held in Geneva from 17 to 21 November, Alkarama called the UN experts to undertake a visit to Tunisia, where the situation of torture remains a major concern despite the political will expressed by the authorities to fight against the persistent human rights violations in the country.

On 23 April 2014, the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) issued an Opinion considering Shawki Ahmad Omar's the detention to be arbitrary and says the Iraqi government has a duty to release him. Wrongly accused, under the mistaken identity of a Palestinian national, of "illegal entry" to the country, Shawki Omar has now spent over ten years behind bars in Iraq.

On 30 October 2014, Alkarama sent a communication to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) regarding the case of two brothers, Mohammed and Kamal Al Shatbi, arbitrarily deprived of their freedom since their respective arrests without warrant on 25 and 27 September 2002.

On 13 November 2014, Alkarama solicited the intervention of United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders, Michel Forst with the Syrian authorities to ensure the immediate release of two Syrian human rights defenders, Jadia Abdallah Nawfal and Omar Al Shaar, who went missing after their arrest at the Syrian Lebanese border on 31 October.

On 3 November 2014, Iraq's second Universal Periodic Review (UPR) was held at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. This process aims to assess, every four years, the human rights record of each United Nations' Member State by the Human Rights Council (HRC).

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