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

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.

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.
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.

The following video footage was taken during the United Nations Human Rights Committee's 100th Session in the context of Jordan's 4th Periodic Review.

Please note: Some of the simultaneous translation may be missing, out of sink or of low sound quality due to technical difficulties.

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Tuhama Mahmoud Ma'ruf, 46, a dentist, married with two children, was most recently arrested on 6 February 2010 by the criminal security forces in Aleppo, for her alleged involvement with the Communist Labor Party in Syria.
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