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On 5 November 2015, the United Nations Human Rights Committee (HRCtee) published its Concluding Observations following its review of Iraq on 26-27 October 2015.

Between 29 October and 2 November 2015, activists Mahmoud Yassin and Mohamed Ali Aboud Al Maliki were released by the Houthi-Saleh Coalition, after being detained incommunicado for more than two weeks at the Political Security Prison. Mahmoud and Mohamed had been arrested with 27 other activists by the Houthi-Saleh Coalition in October for organising a peaceful march to provide drinking water to the population of the besieged city of Taiz.

On 5 November 2015, Alkarama and Al Wissam Humanitarian Assembly sent a communication to the United Nations Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED) regarding the case of Haitham Al Kaabi, a 44-year-old construction worker disappeared since his arrest in his house in Latifiyah in the Babil Governorate on 18 July 2015.

Between 20 and 30 October 2015, Alkarama sent an urgent appeal the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) as well as two urgent appeals to the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) regarding the cases of three Yemeni citizens unlawfully arrested by the Houthi-Saleh Coalition for criticising the group's policies.

Alkarama's report documents hundreds of cases of death in detention resulting from torture, denial of medical care and poor conditions of detention.

At its last session, held from 27 July to 14 August 2015, the United Nations Committee against Torture (CAT) issued its findings on the complaint submitted by Alkarama relating to acts of torture inflicted on Hashem

On 29 October 2015 Alkarama and Human Rights Guardians sent a communication to the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) regarding the case of Ahmad Shamma, a 33-year-old self-employed professional who disappeared from Homs after his arrest by members of

On 28 October 2015, Alkarama sent a communication to the Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence (SR Truth) to inform him about the judicial harassment targeting the relatives of Tahar and Bachir Bo

On 28 October 2015, the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) held a special session, which convened together Mahmoud Abbas, President of the State of Palestine, and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (HCHR) to address the current situation of increased violence and human rights violations in t

On 23 October 2015, Alkarama sent its shadow report on the use of torture in Jordan to the United Nations Committee against Torture (CAT), in view of the country's upcoming review by the Committee during its

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