Yemen: URGENT - Azam Hassan enters an open-ended hunger strike

Yemeni prisons and detention centers are filled with hundreds of detainees who have no idea when they will be released or even if they will ever be tried. Many of these prisoners were either arrested on suspicion or often with no reason at all, as the Yemeni authorities continue to use loosely defined anti-terrorism laws to arbitrarily detain suspects in the fight against the so-called "War on Terror".
16 Feb 2010
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Yemen: Yasser Al-Fakeeh, a young student of 23 years, stopped after leaving the mosque

Yasser Alezzi Hamud Al-Fakeeh, a 23 year old student, was arrested on 22 September 2009 by Political Security agents and military personnel while on his home was with his father after prayer. To date, he has been detained for nearly five months without legal procedures.

The arresting officers threw Yasser Al-Fakeeh into a car and took him to an unknown destination, without ever showing him an arrest warrant, nor did they give him the reasons for his arrest.

16 Feb 2010
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Iraq: Alkarama calls on U.S. authorities to publish the names of its detainees in Iraq

U.S. authorities announced on 18 December 2009 that they would hand over Al-Tajji detention center, located northwest of Baghdad and currently controlled by the U.S. military, to the Iraqi government as of March 2010.

At the time of the statement, the U.S. occupying forces acknowledged having 6210 detainees, including two minors, 38 officials of the Baath Party and four foreign nationals, without specifying whether the number of prisoners was only limited to Al-Tajji detention center.

11 Feb 2010
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Syria: Unjustified judgment against Sheikh Koki after 112 days of secret detention

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Alkarama regretfully informs that Sheikh Abdulrahman Koki was sentenced to one year imprisonment on 10 February 2010.
10 Feb 2010
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Egypt: Detention of top Muslim Brotherhood leaders follows consecutive waves of arrests across Egypt

Alkarama has been informed that 15 leaders of the Egyptian opposition movement, the Muslim Brotherhood, were arrested in the early hours of Monday 8 February 2010. Coordinated efforts by the State Security forces swept through Cairo, Giza, Al-Sharqiya, Al-Daqhliya and Al-Gharbiya. In the two weeks prior to this most recent incident, arrests also took place separately in Al-Bahira, Fayoum and northern Sinai.

Key figures of Muslim Brotherhood arrested

08 Feb 2010
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Egypt: Mohamed Atef Ibrahim, 20, dies after being tortured

Alkarama is shocked by the Egyptian authorities disregard for the reoccurrence of deaths within their detention centers as a result of ill-treatment and torture. The most recent victim is Mohamed Atef Ibrahim, who died on 6 January 2010 after long periods of physical abuse. This case confirms the systematic nature of torture inside Egyptian prisons, where the vast majority of the detainees are exposed to ill-treatment.

Arrest and detention

06 Feb 2010
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Yemen: Human rights defender, Maammar Al-Abdelli, risks unfair trial

Alkarama launched an urgent appeal today, to the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights, in the case of Maamar Al-Abdelli, who was arrested for the second time on 13 July 2009 at a hotel in Aden by agents of Yemeni Intelligence Services.

This is not the first time that this active campaigner for human rights of 36 years was arrested, abducted and arbitrarily detained by the Yemeni Intelligence Service.

04 Feb 2010
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Lebanon: UN subcommittee on prevention of torture visits Lebanon

Today, 4 February 2010, the United Nations Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture begins its visit to Lebanon. Alkarama will be participating in the workshops and meetings organized by the OHCHR in Lebanon in the framework of this visit. Alkarama has already submitted to the Subcommittee specific information about the conditions in prisons and in particular the grave issue of torture in Lebanon.

Lebanon ratified the Convention against Torture (CAT) in 2000 and the Optional Protocol to the Convention (OPCAT) in December 2008.

04 Feb 2010
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Egypt: Arbitrary arrests continue in Egypt - 10 new cases from Kafr Al-Sheikh

The Egyptian Security forces continue to suppress any opposition towards the government - often affiliating the detainees to banned organizations or terrorists groups as a pretext for arrest.

Since the new year, Alkarama has continued to closely follow the arbitrary arrests and detentions carried out by the Egyptian Security forces. The most recent violation from Egypt is the arbitrary arrest of 10 individuals from Kafr Al-Sheikh. The General Investigative services with the help of the Central Security services arrested them in Kafr Al-Sheikh governorate on 2 February 2010.

02 Feb 2010
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Iraq : Lawyers claim courts ‘comparable to those under the former regime'

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Mohamed Al-Dainy, Geneva, October 2008
02 Feb 2010
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