Lebanon: Maher Sukkar held incommunicado and tortured - risks death penalty in unfair trial

On his way home from class on 18 April 2009, Maher Sukkar, a 29 year-old Palestinian refugee, was arrested by agents of the Information Branch of the Internal Security Forces (ISF) in Sabra, Beirut. He was held incommunicado for a total of 18 days until 6 May 2009. At first held at the ISF Directorate, he was then moved to several detention centers until being brought to the Ministry of Defence in Yarzeh on 28 April 2009. He was then subjected to two days of brutal torture aimed at extracting false confessions from him.
18 Mar 2010
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Egypt: Egypt ignores release orders for 21 Muslim Brotherhood leaders; issues administrative detention orders

On Monday 15 March 2010, District Prosecutors ordered the release of 21 Muslim Brotherhood leaders, who were arrested last Friday 12 March 2010 following announcements of their candidatures in Egypt's upcoming November 2010 parliamentary elections.
16 Mar 2010
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Yemen: Scores of arbitrarily detained prisoners go on hunger strike inside Mukalla Political Security Prison

Nearly 50 detainees inside Mukalla Political Security prison in Hadramawt province, southern Yemen, have entered a hunger strike in protest of their continued imprisonment by the Yemeni security authorities who have never charged them or taken them to court.

Relatives of the victims recently informed Alkarama's representative in Yemen that some of the detainees have now spent up to three years in prison without trial. The hunger strike, which began on 10 March 2010, is in protest of their continued arbitrary detention under poor conditions.

16 Mar 2010
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Egypt : 42 electoral candidates and 145 protestors arrested in one day

42 Muslim Brotherhood leaders were arrested from their homes earlier this morning.
12 Mar 2010
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Yemen: Al-Saadi brothers arrested by Political Security forces during house raid

The two brothers Osama, 14 and Mohammed Al-Saadi, 17, were arrested on 13 October 2007 and incommunicado for two months and then later detained without being subject to any legal proceedings for 18 months.
12 Mar 2010
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Saudi Arabia: Human rights defender, Thamer Al-Khodr, now prisoner of conscience

Thamer Al-Khodr, a Saudi human rights activist was arrested on 3 March 2010, by agents from the Al-Qassim intelligence services. He is currently being held incommunicado.

On 12 March 2010, Alkarama sent an urgent appeal to the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights, requesting her intervention with the Saudi authorities.

12 Mar 2010
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Saudi Arabia: Mohamed Alim sentenced to 10 months - has now been detained for over six years

The Saudi judicial system continues to treat migrant workers with complete disregard. The most recent victim is Mohamed Alim, a Bangladeshi national, who has now been in custody for over six years after completing his 10 month sentence.

Seven years ago, while he was working as a cleaner at the Saudi Ministry of Health, Mohamed Alim was arrested on charges of pharmaceutical drug embezzlement along with a Saudi guard.
12 Mar 2010
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Syria: Baha Mustapha and Abo Attoh deported and now missing since the Saidnaya massacre

In what are two related cases of deportation: Baha Mustafa was deported back to Syria by Pakistani authorities on 4 May 2002; while his counterpart, Mohamed Abo Atthoth was also deported back to Syria by Turkish authorities on 4 February 1992. Upon their return, they were arrested, released, and then rearrested - They have both disappeared since the July 2008 massacre inside Saidnaya prison.
11 Mar 2010
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Yemen: FREED - Young Bengali girl is released, four other Bengali nationals remain in Political Security custody

Alkarama has just received news that Tonchenba Haider Ali, 22, has just been released from Sana'a's Central Women's prison. The young lady from Bengal was arrested on 20 February 2010 by Political Security forces following the detention of four other fellow Bengali students. At the time of her arrest, she was departing from Sana'a airport after having completed a three month Arabic language course in Yemen.
11 Mar 2010
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Libya: FREED - Al-Rabassi, serving 15 year sentence, is released

Arrested at his home on 3 January 2003 by agents of Interior Security, Abdenacer Al-Rabassi had previously been sentenced to 15 years imprisonment by a special court after having sent a controversial email to the Editor in Chief of the Arab Times. He was recently released on 8 March 2010 and has since returned to his home in Beni Walid.

10 Mar 2010
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