Dr Matrouk Al-Faleh, a member of the Arab Commission for Human Rights, who was arrested on 19 May 2008 by the intelligence services (Al Mabahith) and detained incommunicado at the Al Hayr prison near Riyadh, has just been released.
Alkarama and the Arab Commission for Human Rights had addressed a communication to the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention as well as the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of o
Alkarama has just been officially informed of Opinion N° 13/2008 rendered during the last session of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention regarding the detention of Ali Al Chahri who was arrested on 23 August 2006.
Alkarama submitted an urgent appeal to the Special Rapporteur on Torture on 22 December 2008 to ask him to intervene in the case of Dr Saud b. Mubarek b. Zair, a campaigner for constitutional reforms, detained incommunicado since his arrest on 6 June 2007 (see press release).
Alkarama has just been informed of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention’s opinion 11/2008 , issued on 9 May 2008, regarding Mr Amer Al Qahtani, imprisoned for more than 10 years. Alkarama had submitted two communications concerning him, the first dated 18 May 2006.
Mr Amer b. Said b. Mohamed Al Thaqfan Al Qahtani, a teacher, residing in Riyadh, was aged 29 years at the time of his arrest in March 1998.
Alkarama for Human Rights has just been informed of the opinion issued on 8 May 2008 by the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention regarding Mr Abdul Rahman Al Sudais, arbitrarily detained since 2003. Alkarama had submitted a communication to the Working Group on 6 June 2005, asking them to intervene urgently with Saudi authorities.
Alkarama submitted, on 18 September 2008, a communication to the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, asking them to intervene in the case of Mr Khalid Al Shammari, a stateless person (Bedouin) from Kuwait, arrested in Saudi Arabia and detained incommunicado since January 2007.
Mr Khalid Said Khalid al-Shammari was born on 7 September 1980 and lives with his family in Kuwait City and carries an identity card for the stateless.
Alkarama submitted, on 11 September 2008 to the Special Rapporteurs on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment and on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions a communication concerning the death of Khaled Hatem, a Yemenite citizen, who was arrested at the end of April 2008 and had been detained in the Dahabanhe prison in Djedda since that time.
Alkarama submitted, on 19 August 2008 the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions in relation to the imminent execution of three Saudi nationals, currently detained in the Al-Jouf prison (Muhafadat Al Qariat).
The three defendants, Mr Khaled Mohammed Issa Al-Qadihi (26 years), Mr Qasim b. Ridha B. Suleyman Al-Mahdi (24 years) and Mr Ali Hassan Issa Al-Bouri (36 years), were arrested on 25 July 2004 at the Al-Haditha border post coming from Syria via Jordan.
On 1st of August 2008, Alkarama submitted a communication to the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention asking the Working Group to intervene in the case of Mr Nasser Al Hadiqi. He was wounded by gunfire during his arrest on 8 April 2004, and held since then without having any charges brought against him
Mr Nasser Ali Abdullah Al Hadiqi is a citizen of Yemen and usually resides with his family in Aden (Yemen). He is 40 years old and worked in a restaurant in Riyadh in Saudi Arabia.
