"I am not afraid of justice but of injustice", wrote the former President of the Comoros, Mr. Ahmed Mohamed Abdallah Sambi, in a letter addressed to President Azali Assoumani, to underline a legal situation that is unprecedented in the history of Comorian justice.
Alkarama has learned that Saudi authorities have arbitrarily sentenced reformist preacher Khaled Al-Rashed to an additional eight-year imprisonment. The heavy additional sentence comes 17 months after he completed his initial 15-year prison sentence
On February 16th, 2022, Alkarama addressed the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture regarding the case of the former governor of Qalyubia, who was arrested on September 17th, 2013 by the police and has been held in solitary confinement since then.
Political activist and former deputy minister of war victims and missing persons, Dr. Abdurahman Mohamed Arjili Ghoma has been released, six years after his abduction in Libya.
Alkarama shares the concern of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) regarding the devastating effects of the escalation of the conflict in Yemen. Human rights and international humanitarian law violations by all parties to the conflict are even more alarming that they continue to affect civilians.