The Independent : Secrets of Iraq's death chamber

Prisoners are being summarily executed in the government's high-security detention centre in Baghdad. Robert Fisk reports

Like all wars, the dark, untold stories of the Iraqi conflict drain from its shattered landscape like the filthy waters of the Tigris. And still the revelations come.

The Independent has learnt that secret executions are being carried out in the prisons run by Nouri al-Maliki's "democratic" government.

08 Oct 2008
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Time magazine - Six Years Inside Gitmo: A Journalist's Tale

Both John McCain and Barack Obama have said they would shut the U.S. military detention facility at Guantánamo Bay, where about 250 men remain behind bars — some in their eighth year of captivity. But neither presidential candidate has outlined when and how they plan to do it. One man ready to offer them some free advice on the problem of Guantánamo is Sami Al-Hajj, an al-Jazeera TV cameraman recently freed, without facing charges, after six and a half years at Guantánamo.
30 Sep 2008
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Saudi Arabia: The Working Group of the United Nations notes the arbitrary detention of Abdul Rahman Al Sudais

Alkarama for Human Rights has just been informed of the opinion issued on 8 May 2008 by the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention regarding Mr Abdul Rahman Al Sudais, arbitrarily detained since 2003. Alkarama had submitted a communication to the Working Group on 6 June 2005, asking them to intervene urgently with Saudi authorities.

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29 Sep 2008
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Saudi Arabia: Arbitrary detention of Mr Khalid Al Shammari

Alkarama submitted, on 18 September 2008, a communication to the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, asking them to intervene in the case of Mr Khalid Al Shammari, a stateless person (Bedouin) from Kuwait, arrested in Saudi Arabia and detained incommunicado since January 2007.

Mr Khalid Said Khalid al-Shammari was born on 7 September 1980 and lives with his family in Kuwait City and carries an identity card for the stateless.

22 Sep 2008
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Yemen: Release of Mr Louay Al-Mouayyad, journalist and human rights activist

Alkarama has learned of the release of Mr Louay Al-Mouayyad on 12 September 2008 at 1 am after 74 days of detention. He was not subject to any legal proceedings during his detention and was released without ever being brought before a judicial authority.

Mr AL-MOUAYYAD, member of the Organization for Rights and Democratic Freedoms, was arrested at his home by the Security Police (Amn Al Assiyassi) on 30 June 2008, taken to an unknown destination and held incommunicado since that date.

19 Sep 2008
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Emirates : Universal Periodic Review at the Human Rights Council

The third session of the Universal Periodic Review of the Human Rights Council will start on December 1, 2008. This session will review the United Arab Emirates. In this framework, Alkarama presented a contribution on July 14, 2008.

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Universal Periodic Review (UPR)

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18 Sep 2008
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Saudi Arabia : Khaked Hatem, deceased in prison as a result of torture

Alkarama submitted, on 11 September 2008 to the Special Rapporteurs on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment and on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions a communication concerning the death of Khaled Hatem, a Yemenite citizen, who was arrested at the end of April 2008 and had been detained in the Dahabanhe prison in Djedda since that time.
16 Sep 2008
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Protest against a nomination to the UN Human Rights Committee.

Abdel Wahab Hani, on behalf of the NGO Alkarama (Dignity) and the Arab Commission of Human Rights, protested against the nomination of an Egyptian diplomat, Ahmed Amin Fathalla as member of the UN Human Rights Committee during a meeting last week between the NGO and the president of the Council, the Nigerian, Martin Ihoeghian Uhomoibhi.

The Committee is made up of independent people who are responsible for monitoring the application of the international Pact on civil and political rights, one of the two pillars of the UN. M.

15 Sep 2008
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Press : A Geneva NGO upsets Arab countries

9 September 08 - Over the past four years, the Geneva based NGO, Alkarama has filed thousands of complaints to the UN regarding human rights violations by Arab states.
10 Sep 2008
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Algeria introduces a Senator to serve on the Human Rights Committee

The States party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights will meet on the 4th of September in New York to renew half of the membership of Human Rights Committee.

On 29 August 2008, Alkarama wrote a letter to the High Commissioner for Human Rights to protest against the candidacy of Senator Lazhari Bouzid, and to express its concern about his possible election.

03 Sep 2008
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