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On 23 December 2022, Alkarama sent an urgent appeal to the Special Rapporteur on Torture regarding the situation of Tawfiq Al Mansoori, Harith HAMID and Abdul Khaleq AMRAN, Yemeni journalists who were subjected to torture while in detention in the Central Security Camp prison in the Yemeni capital, Sana'a.

On 19 December 2022 Iraq was urged by the UN Committee against Enforced Disappearances (CED) to reveal the fate of Salam Al Boumahidi and Hazim Al Ezzawi, Iraqi citizens who disappeared during 2014 following their abduction by the Iraqi army.

On 29 November 2022, Alkarama submitted the case of Mustafa Faraj Mohammad Masud AL JADID AL UZAYBI (also known as “Abu Faraj AL LIBI”) to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD). This Libyan national has been arbitrarily detained in Guantánamo Bay detention centre since his transfer from a CIA “black site” on 4 September 2006.

In December 2022, the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) called again the Saudi authorities to release immediately 70-year-old religious scholar Safar bin Abdulrahman Al Hawali.

On 30 November 2022, Alkarama alerted the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention on the situation of Mr Khaled bin Mohamed AL RASHED, detained since 2006 and sentenced to 15 years imprisonment for having publicly criticized the policies of the country's leaders.

In a decision dated 25 November 2022, the United Nations Human Rights Committee has clearly established once again the responsibility of Algeria for the violations suffered by one of the victims of the repression of the 1990s, Tawfik DJAOU, who has been missing since his abduction in Constantine by agents of the Department of Intelli

International Human Rights Day, 10 December, commemorates the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and with it the introduction of common human rights standards “for all peoples and all nations”. This day serves also as a stark reminder that, whenever and wherever humanity's values are abandoned, humanity is at greater risk. Yet, today, the people of Yemen have been abandoned by the international community.

The State Security Court of the Republic of the Comoros has sentenced former President Ahmed Abdallah Sambi to life in prison on charges of high treason, despite the decision of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention in which his detention was qualified as arbitrary.

Human rights sources reported that the forcibly disappeared Mr. Walid Fouad Al Ghunaimi Al Maghazi appeared before the State Security Prosecution on 27 October 2022 who decided to detain him in Abu Zaabal prison. His family was unable to visit him or access to his criminal case file.

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