Yemen: Alkarama UPR Report Highlights Ongoing Violations despite Transition

Despite significant undertakings by several ministries in Yemen, a number of serious human rights violations continue in the country, Alkarama's most recent report on Yemen said.
17 Jul 2013
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Egypt: Urgent Appeal to the UN regarding Arbitrary Detention of President Mohamed Morsi

On 10 July, Alkarama presented the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention with the case of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi 'Isa al-'Ayat, arrested and arbitrarily detained since his overthrow by the Army on 3 July 2013.

Also arrested with him were his staff, including Dr. Ahmad 'Abd-al-'Ati, Dr. 'Isam al-Hadad, Mr. Khalid al-Qazaz, Mr. 'Abd-al-Majid Mishali, Mr. As'ad al-Shaykhah, and Dr. Ayman 'Ali. All of them were detained, apparently under "house arrest", but in a location that remains unknown.

15 Jul 2013
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Egypt: Condemn and Investigate Killing of 109 Protestors by Military and Police

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At least one hundred and nine protestors have been shot dead by the Egyptian military and police during demonstrations between 3 and 8 July 2013.
10 Jul 2013
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Egypt: Respect people's right to life, liberty and freedom of expression

Following the military coup that ousted President Morsi on 2 July 2013, Alkarama is deeply concerned by early reports of deaths of protestors, disappearances, arbitrary arrests, and a crackdown on freedom of expression by Egyptian military and police forces.
05 Jul 2013
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Lebanon: Secret Detentions Following the Clashes in Saida

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Following the outbreak of clashes in Saida on 23 and 24 June, which lead to numerous casualties, the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) conducted searches in the city and its surroundings. During these operations, at least 140 individuals were arrested and at least 27 remain currently in detention.
05 Jul 2013
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Kuwait: Alkarama follow up report highlights growing freedom of expression concerns

 
Today, Alkarama provided the Human Rights Committee with follow up information [link to report] about Kuwait's implementation of its obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. This was in view of the Committee's 108th session,scheduled for 8-26 July 2013.
05 Jul 2013
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Algeria: Algiers Schoolboy Missing for 17 Years

At around 2.20am on the 28th of February 1996, Mohamed Lamine Nateche, a 16-year-old boy, was abducted by agents from the police station near his grandparents' home in Hussein Dey, in the suburbs of Algiers. He often spent the night there as the house was close to his school. Thereafter, he was taken to Bourouba police station.

« Bring us back his uncle and we'll give you back your son »

05 Jul 2013
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Libya: Five human rights activists illegally abducted by two Katibas in Tripoli

Yesterday, at dawn, five human rights activists, including one minor, were arrested in Tripoli by members of Katibas without any legal basis.

Abdel Al Manay, Abdel Al Djadaimy, Al Hadje Abou Saadah, Abdel Douwah and Fouad Issa, aged 17, were arrested by an armed group claiming to belong to the Al-Sawa'iq (الصواعق كتيبة) and Al-Qa'qa' (كتيبة القعقاع) Katibas (revolutionary groups) who stated they were working under the authority of the Ministry of Defence.

04 Jul 2013
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UAE: Unfair Trial, Unjust Sentences

UAE: Unfair Trial, Unjust Sentences

69 Government Critics, Including 2 Human Rights Lawyers, Face Prison Terms

(Beirut) – The convictions of 69 defendants in the United Arab Emirates' (UAE) mass trial of 94 government critics on July 2, 2013, were based on a fundamentally unfair trial, a coalition of human rights groups said today. The convictions probably violated the right of free association of many of those accused.

03 Jul 2013
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National Coordination of Families of the Disappeared in Algeria received at the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva

On 1 July 2013, representatives from the National Coordination of Families of the Disappeared in Algeria (CNFD) and from Alkarama met with the Working Group on Enforced Disappearances and members of the Special Rapporteur on the Promotion of Truth's office at the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) headquarters in Geneva.
 
 
This meeting was an opportunity for the CNFD to raise awareness among UN experts of the violence used to repress the demonstration organised in Constantine on the 27th of July 2013,
02 Jul 2013
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