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On 29 July 2015, human rights activist Amer Jubran was sentenced to 10 years in prison by the State Security Court following an unfair trial during which confessions extracted under torture were admitted as evidence. In view of this decision, Amer appealed to the Cassation Court, which has not considered his case yet.

On 25 September 2015, Alkarama submitted its shadow report to the UN Human Rights Committee (HRCTee) in view of its fifth review of the country during its upcoming 115th session on 26-27 October 2015.

On 24 September 2015, Alkarama sent an urgent appeal to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment (SRT) regarding the arrest of 32-year-old freelance journalist Hassan Mahmoud Ragab El Kabany in January 2015.

Alkarama and the Djiboutian Human Rights League (LDDH) reiterate their 22 September call on the Djiboutian authorities to release opposition members arrested by the police on 18 September 2015, during a peaceful demonstration in the southwestern city of Dikhil.

On 16 September 2015, Alkarama and the Arab Coalition for Sudan (ACS) sent an urgent appeal to the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) regarding the abduction of member of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, Babacar Moussa Issa, by the National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) on 27 August 2015. Secretly detained by the NISS, Babacar would have been repeatedly subjected to torture since his arrest.

A committed member of the Omani Parliament and environmental activist, Talib Al Mamari will receive Alkarama's 2015 Award for Human Rights Defenders in the Arab World, in recognition for his significant work defending human rights in the country, particularly since the

On 24 September 2015, Alkarama sent an urgent appeal to the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) regarding the disappearance of 17-year-old Khaled Mohamed El Beltagy following his abduction by the Security Forces on 22 September 2015.

On 23 September 2015, Alkarama and Al Wissam Humanitarian Assembly sent a communication to the United Nations Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED) regarding the case of four men who disappeared following their arrests in the surroundings of Baghdad between May and November 2014.

Circumstances of the 4 men's respective disappearances

Alkarama welcomes the release, on 22 September 2015, of Palestinian teenager, Amer Bajawi, who had been sentenced by an Israeli military court for "throwing stones" two months earlier.

On 23 September 2015, Alkarama sent an urgent appeal to the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID), regarding the respective abductions of Taalat Hosni Quranu Ali Al Sharkawy and Abdelrahman Mohammed Abdelbasser by the Homeland Security and the Central Security Forces in August and September 2015.

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