Alkarama | Combating injustice in the Arab World since 2004

Iraq: IPU declares Al-Dainy trial a "travesty of justice", calls for his rehabilitation

10 Nov 2010

Algeria: Torture victim kidnapped again

Othmane Abdellahoum was kidnapped by security officers in Ain Al Hadjel, Wilaya de Msila, after leaving his home at around 7pm on 16 October 2010. He is nowhere to be found.

On 5 November 2010 Alkarama sent an urgent appeal to the Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances asking for them to intervene with Algerian authorities so that Mr Abdellahoum can be released or placed under legal protection.

Mr Abdellahoum, 32, is a married father of two from Ain Al Hadjel in Wilaya de Msila.

08 Nov 2010

Yemen: Detainees go on Hunger Strike at Al-Hodeidah Political Security Prison

On 7 November 2010, dozens of detainees inside the Al-Hodeidah (western Yemen) Political Security prison ended their hunger strike following nine days of peaceful protest. The prison authorities, however, were impervious to the demonstrations and offered no solace to the detainees' requests for their release.

On 18 March 2010, Alkarama sent the cases of 10 Yemeni detainees to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD), requesting its intervention with the Yemeni authorities.

07 Nov 2010

Egypt: Sudanese Refugee Brutally Tortured by Nasr City Security Services

Mr Adam Khalil Haouli, a 37 year old Sudanese refugee living in Egypt since May 2002 was arrested by Egyptian security forces on of 30 December 2009 and brutally tortured for 82 days.

On 4 november 2010, Alkarama sent Mr Haouli's case to the Special Rapporteur on torture (SRT), requesting his intervention with the Egyptian authorities to open a full and impartial investigation in order to establish the facts behind the acts torture committed against him and to prosecute those responsible.

04 Nov 2010

Syria: Airport employee beaten and fired for aiding corruption investigation

Azad Aziz Othman, a 29-year-old airport staff from Damascus, worked in the loading bridge at Aleppo International Airport. He was recently the subject of smear campaign during which he was threatened, arrested, beaten, and eventually being fired from his job.

01 Nov 2010

Tunisia: Dr. Sadek Chourou Released

Alkarama was just informed that the 63-year-old Tunisian prisoner of opinion Dr.

01 Nov 2010

Lebanon: Continued Practice of Torture by Security Forces

On 1 November 2010, Alkarama submitted seven new cases of torture in Lebanon to the newly appointed Special Rapporteur on Torture Mr. Juan Méndez. These seven cases took place between 2006 and 2010. All of these allegations are related to very young victims: one was 17 at the time of the violation and all were under 25. The victims include individuals accused of links to terrorist cells, but also one charged with common criminal accusations.

01 Nov 2010

Saudi Arabia: Disappeared Lebanese student now held in Abha prison

On 18 July 2009, Bilal Abu Haikal, a Lebanese citizen, was en route from Lebanon to Saudi Arabia to begin work in a Saudi Arabian engineering company. When he arrived at Riyadh airport - he was immediately arrested. He has since been detained without charge or trial and held in two different Saudi prisons.

01 Nov 2010

Lebanon: Seven men severely tortured while in custody of security forces

On 1 November 2010, Alkarama sent seven new torture cases to the Special Rapporteur on Torture. The seven cases allegedly took place between 2006 and 2010. All the victims were under-25 and one of them was only 17. Six of the seven victims are accused of having links to terrorist cells inside Lebanon, while only one of them is held on regular criminal charges.

The victims were tortured by agents from the Information Branch and the Judicial Police of the Internal Security forces and several military intelligence officers.

01 Nov 2010