United Arab Emirates: Risk of expulsion of well-known government critic Ahmed Abdul Khaleq

Alkarama was informed that Mr Abdul Khaleq, one of the UAE5, a group of five well known government critics and human rights defenders who were subjected to and unfair trial in the United Arab Emirates last year, was re-arrested on 22 May 2012.
28 May 2012
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Libya: Mr. Amhamed Ahwishy, victim of torture and enforced disappearance

Alkarama has seized the Special Procedures of the United Nation today of the case of Mr. Amhamed Ahwishy, a 42-year-old Libyan citizen and a father of four, who has been arbitrarily detained and submitted to acts of torture since 18 October 2011.

Amhamed Ahwishy was arrested in Wadi Masour on 18 October 2011 by a group of armed men that presented themselves as members of "the Katiba of 28 May," a revolutionary brigade of Bani Walid.

25 May 2012
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Libya: Arbitrary detention of Mr. Sayed Qaddaf Dam, cousin of the former head of state Muammar Qaddafi

Mr. Sayed Qaddaf Dam, 64, was arrested at him home in Syrte on 18 September 2011 by armed men without any warrant on the soul basis of his familial relationship with the former head of state Muammar Qaddafi, who was his cousin.

When he was arrested, he was awaiting a surgical procedure on his spinal column to treat lesions from which he suffers.

23 May 2012
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Morocco: Sofiane Alazami has been found

On 21 May 2012, a person calling themselves an official of the psychiatric hospital of Ar-Razi in Salé called his father to inform him that his son was being held in the establishment. The same day, his father went to find him.

23 May 2012
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Lebanon: Unfair trial of supporter of Syrian opposition, Shadi Al Mawlawi

On 12 May 2012, Shadi Al Mawlawi, a Lebanese national known to support the Syrian opposition as well as Syrian refugees in Lebanon, was arrested in Tripoli. The 25-year-old merchant of office furniture now faces a military trial based on terrorism charges.
22 May 2012
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Geneva: Second cycle of UPR begins with review of four Arab states

On Monday 21 May, the second cycle of the UPR – Universal Periodic Review – will begin at the Human Rights Council in Geneva, with the 13th session of the Human Rights Council Working Group on the UPR.
17 May 2012
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Morocco: Sofiane Alazami, victim of enforced disappearance

Alkarama seized the Special Procedures of the United Nations of the case of Sofiane Alazami today, who was abducted on the night of 5-6 May 2012 while he was on his way to Casablanca to look for work.
16 May 2012
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Syria: special review by UN Committee against Torture to take place this week

For the first time since 1997, the Committee against Torture will review a State outside of its normal reporting obligations, with Syria scheduled to be reviewed by the UN Committee against Torture this week. Syria was last examined two years ago in 2010 and would under normal circumstances have been again reviewed in 2014, according to the four-year periodicity of the review process.
14 May 2012
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Libya: Mr. Rifat Al Khwildy, a journalist who participated in the revolution, is arbitrarily detained and is the victim of torture and ill-treatment

Alkarama seized the Special Rapporteur on Torture and the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention of the case of Mr. Rifat Al Khwildy, a victim of arbitrary detention and torture for nine months.

A 27-year-old journalist, Mr. Al Khwildy participated in the Revolutionary Movement of 17 February 2011. Having learned that his name appeared on a list of people that were opposed to the revolution and that he was now the object of an investigation, he turned himself into the Military Council in Tripoli on 4 September 2011.

14 May 2012
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Syria: Disappearance of influential Islamic scholar, Moaz Al Khatib

Moaz Al Khatib, a well-known and widely respected Syrian Islamic scholar, was arrested by the Syrian Military Intelligence in Damascus on 27 April 2012.
10 May 2012
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