Iraq: Enforced disappearance of Alaa Al-Maliki

Alaa Al-Maliki Khayr Allah was arrested on 17 February 2009 and has since disappeared.
20 May 2009
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UAE: Alkarama follows up cases and UPR pledges with a country visit

Members of Alkarama's legal department travelled to the United Arab Emirates from 11-16 April 2009. The purpose of the visit was to follow up on certain cases and to consider the human rights situation in the U.A.E in order to better understand and evaluate the situation in the country.

 

19 May 2009
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Iraq: Enforced disappearance of Omar Jasem, Hossein Mansoor and Odey Mansoor

Omar Jasem, Hossein Mansoor and Odey Mansoor were arrested on 25 February 2009 at the Mansoor home and since, their families have had no news from them.
19 May 2009
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United Arab Emirates: Al-Diqqi released, 10 year prison sentence reduced

Hassan Al-Diqqi, an outspoken political reformist in his country through various unofficial associations for over twenty years, was arrested on 20 July 2008. On the 4 March 2009, he was sentenced to 10 years in prison. However, he appealed the decision, which led to his sentence being reduced to 6 months' imprisonment. He was released on the 11 May 2009.

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18 May 2009
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Egypt: Whereabouts of 17 prisoners leaked by released prisoners

Between 1992 and 1997, 17 people disappeared after being arrested by agents of the General Directorate for State Security Investigations.  Amongst the 17 who remain in custody were several men who were released soon after initial questioning.
16 May 2009
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Algeria: The National Institution for Human Rights (CNCPPDH) in the hot seat

Algeria's national institution for human rights is about to lose its International Coordinating Committee of National Institutions (ICC) accreditation.
15 May 2009
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Syria: Enforced disappearance of eight members of the Kurdish community in Qamishli

Between late August and November 2008, Syrian security services arrested eight people in Qamishli, a town in the north-east of Syria. These people have since disappeared. Alkarama submitted a communication to the Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID), asking it to intervene with the Syrian authorities.

All of the following eight young men live in Qamishli and are Syrian nationals, with the exception of one: 

14 May 2009
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Iraq: Enforced disappearance of Riyad Ibrahim Jassem

On 11 February 2009, Riyad Ibrahim Jassem was viciously arrested without judicial warrant and taken to an unknown location. He was clearly tortured and then forced to make a televised confession. On 8 May 2009, Alkarama made an urgent submission to the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID).

Riyad Jassem is the secretary of the Iraqi MP Mohammad Al-Dainy, who disappeared following his arrest by Iraqi security forces on 25 February 2009.

12 May 2009
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United Arab Emirates: Abdullah Al-Alili released after more than two years in prison

On 15 February 2007, Abdullah Al-Alili was arbitrarily arrested, detained incommunicado and later sentenced, in an unfair trial, to three years imprisonment on 1 October 2007. On 8 May 2009, after two years and three months, he was released.
11 May 2009
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Iraq in its 7th year of occupation: a delegation visits Geneva

03 May 2009
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