ABOUT ALKARAMA

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On 17 October 2014, Alkarama sent an urgent appeal to the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) to bring to their attention the case of Mohamed Abdulhamid Ali, a 32 years old Egyptian citizen disappeared since his abduction by the National Security Forces on 24 September 2014.

Beirut, 20 October 2014

On 1 October 2014, Alkarama sent an urgent appeal before the United Nations Special Procedures concerning the arbitrary detention and torture of Rawda Jamal Abd Al Azzem, an 18 year-old student arrested by the Egyptian police on 28 December 2013, in Nasr City.

On 24 September 2014, Alkarama and Al Wissam Humanitarian Assembly wrote to Emmanuel Decaux, Chairman of the Committee on Enforced Disappearance (CED) to call on the Iraqi authorities to release Jamal Hadi Abdel Raouf Al Abdali, disappeared since his arrest by a security patrol on 21 April 2014.

On 24 September 2014, Alkarama and Al Wissam Humanitarian Assembly wrote to the Working Group on Enforced Disappearances (WGEID) to alert them on the case of Jamal AbdulKareemKazar Al Zabidi, President of the Taekwondo Federation and member of the Iraqi Olympic Committee, disappeared since his arrest by members of the Iraqi military forces on 15 July 2006.

On 23 September 2014, Alkarama sent an urgent appeal to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture regarding the case of Ahmed Rashad, a 15 year-old teenager arrested on 16 May 2014 for taking part in a peaceful demonstration in the town of Zagazig, in lower Egypt.

On 8 and 9 October 2014, Alkarama delivered its key recommendations to the UN Member States' Permanent Missions for the second Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Egypt, which will be held on 5 November 2014.

Geneva/Beirut, 10 October 2014

During its 111th session, the United Nations Human Rights Committee (HRC) has established the Algerian authorities' responsibility in the murder of the FEDSI brothers on 19 April 1997 in the village of Tellata near Taher in the province of Jijel. The principal perpatrator of their summary execution is none other than the head of the Daira (district) of Taher, Fourar Meheni, accompanied by the head of the local police (Dark al Watani) and the Police Commissioner of Taher.