Articles for Saudi Arabia

Alkarama for Human Rights, June 2, 2008

Alkarama for Human Rights, May 25, 2008

Alkarama for Human Rights, May 25, 2008

Alkarama renewed its action towards the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention on May 24, 2008 in the case of Mr. Tallal Al Majed, Saudi national, arrested on June 20, 2002 in Qatar and deported to Saudi Arabia where he is since then detained arbitrarily.

Alkarama had sent an urgent communication to the Working Group on May 8, 2006, another one to the Special Rapporteur on Torture on November 17, 2006 and a third to the High Commissioner for Human Rights on March 5, 2007.

Alkarama for Human Rights, May 12, 2008

Alkarama asked, on May 8, 2008, the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention to intervene in the case of Mr. Samara, arbitrarily detained since July 17, 2007.

Mr. Marwan Abdel Rahman Ahmad SAMARA, Palestinian citizen, was born in 1984 and lives in Riyadh. He is married and father of a baby girl.

Alkarama for Human Rights, April 29, 2008

Alkarama just learned that Fouad Al Farhan, who was arrested on December 10, 2007 and held incommunicado for nearly a month, was released on 26 April 2008.

Alkarama had alerted on 14 January 2008 Ms. Louise Arbour, High Commissioner for Human Rights, asking her to intervene with the Saudi authorities and had as well seized on 29 February 2008 the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention .

Alkarama for Human Rights, March 22, 2008

Alkarama and the Arab Commission on Human Rights have sent a communication to the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and the Special Rapporteur on Torture to ask them to intervene in the case of Mahmoud Hozbor, detained since 03 July 2003 in Saudi Arabia in a secret location and without due process of law.

AlKarama for Human Rights, February 28, 2008

AlKarama has send on February 27 a communication to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention asking for its intervention with the Saudi authorities in the case of Mr Naive Abdellah Al Qahtani, detained without due process of  law since 09 August 2004.

Mr. Naif Mohamed Abdellah AL QAHTANI was born in 1972. He resides with his family in Al Kharj, Saudi Arabia, where he is a civil servant in the local administration.

Alkarama for Human Rights has asked the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detentions to urgently intervene regarding the case of Mr. Khellil Al Junahi, citizen of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), who has been illegaly detained since April 2007 in Saudi Arabia.