Yemen: Journalists suffer persecution for reporting on protests

Alkarama today submitted the cases of 7 journalists, including 2 women, who have suffered persecution because of their activities reporting on, and participating in, protests in Yemen to the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression. These journalists have been subjected to various type of harassment including being enforcedly disappeared, detained arbitrarily, arrested, and received death threats.

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29 Jul 2011
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Syria: Risk of torture of Mr Awad Al Abbas, arrested to serve as a hostage in the context of peaceful demonstrations

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Mr Awad Jassem Al Abbas ((عواد جاسم العباس, is aged 36 years and married with four children. He usually lives with his family in Al Dmaier, Reef Damascus, Syria.
29 Jul 2011
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Syria: Enforced disappearance of Mr Annas Darwish Ammar

Mr Ammar was arrested on 28 May 2011 from his home in Banias at 3pm by Military Security agent Issam Sayouh, who has previously worked alongside Mr Ammar's father in a refinery in Banias as a security agent for two years until the demonstration began.

Mr Ammar had already been arrested by Military Security when the army first entered the city at the beginning of the protests on 7 May 2011, but was released two days later.

28 Jul 2011
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Syria: Systematic pattern of enforced disappearance

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Alkarama is seriously concerned about the repression of peaceful demonstrators and other activists who are often victims of enforced disappearance following their arrest by the Syrian security services.
28 Jul 2011
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Lebanon: Alkarama's respresentive questioned by Military Intelligence

Saadeddine Shatila, Alkarama's representative in Lebanon, was held yesterday morning, 25 July 2011, for questioning by Lebanese military intelligence in Beirut. According to the summons which he received last Friday, he was questioned regarding certain "security issues", but was released later the same day after seven hours of interrogation, which mainly concerned his human rights work.

26 Jul 2011
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Morocco : German-Moroccan citizen arbitrarily detained and accused of terrorism

Arrested for the first time in July 2009 as he was travelling to Pakistan with Tablighi Jamaat, a religious organization for which he volunteered, Mr Mohammed Hajib was again arrested in Morocco last year and remains detained in inhumane conditions to date.
25 Jul 2011
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Syria – Risk of torture and extrajudicial killing of a know Syrian author

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Dr Mohamed Jamal Al Tahhan (محمد جمال الطحان) is aged 54 years and married with four children. He usually lives with his family in Al Miridyan region, Aleppo. He is a member at the Arab Writers' Union as well as the Federation of Arab Journalists.
22 Jul 2011
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Syria - Enforced disappearance of Mr Mohammad Al-Ashtar since 13 May 2011

Mr Mohammad Al-Ashtar  (محمد الأشتر ) is aged 38 years and works as a bricklayer. He is married with seven children and usually lives with his family in Al Mazare' region, Al Rastan, Homs, Syria.

On 13 May 2011, Mr Mohammad Al-Ashtar went to the Al Rastan Police Station – Muderiatte Al Mintaka - to file a complaint regarding the theft of personal items. He was immediately arrested, before being enforced disappeared.

22 Jul 2011
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Syria: Arrest and detention of three protest leaders Messrs Al Sahyoni

Since the beginning of the protests in Syria, thousands of arbitrary arrests, disappearances and human rights abuses have been, and continue to be, committed by the authorities with total impunity. Human rights activists and campaigners have in particular been targeted by the security forces.

Arrested on 12 May 2011, Messrs Bashar, Mohamed and Ghassan Al Sahyoni played an important role in the peaceful demonstrations that have taken place in Syria last March, as they were in charge of coordinating protests locally.

22 Jul 2011
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Egypt : Arrest and torture of Mr Al Sayed

On 30 June 2011, Mr Al Sayed was arrested at his home by agents of the Criminal Investigation Branch of the Police, who were dressed as civilians. He was not presented with an arrest warrant nor was he given a reason for his arrest at the time.

Mr Abou Al Maaty AL SAYED was directly taken to the Farag Police Station, where he was subjected to various acts of torture at the hands of two agents of the Criminal Investigation branch, Ali Maher and Saïd Chaarwy, who forced him to undress and shaved his hair, eyebrows and moustache.

20 Jul 2011
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