Articles for Kuwait

On 1 May 2012, Mr Abdulhakim Al Fadhli, a well-known activist for the rights of Bidun (stateless) in Kuwait, was arrested for the third time this year and who is now charged with calling for and participating in demonstrations. Alkarama strongly condemns the persecution of Mr Al Fadhli which clearly violates his right to freedom of expression and of peaceful assembly and is solely based on his commitment to the cause for equal rights of the Bidun in Kuwait.

The Human Rights Committee today concluded its review of the implementation by Kuwait of its obligations from the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) by issuing its advanced unedited version of its findings on Kuwait today.
On 20 and 21 October 2011, a Kuwaiti delegation led by the Kuwaiti ambassador to Geneva, Dahrar Al-Razooki, met with the Human Rights Committee experts at the Palais Wilson in Geneva, Switzerland to discuss Kuwait's human rights record.

Civil society has the opportunity to provide information on the human rights situation in Kuwait when the country is examined by the United Nations Human Rights Committee (HRCttee) in October 2011. The Committee will review whether Kuwait is respecting the civil and political rights of its citizens.

Abdul Aziz Al-Shammari, 37 and a Kuwaiti citizen married with two children, is a former Guantanamo Bay detainee. He was repatriated to Kuwait on 3 November 2005, after which he was put on trial, acquitted by the Kuwaiti Criminal Court, and released in 2006.

Abd Al-Aziz Sayir Al-Shamri is currently being harassed by Kuwaiti authorities, due to his previous imprisonment at Guantanamo Bay. He was handed over to the American forces by the Pakistani authorities during the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan, and subsequently transferred to Guantanamo Bay prison.

Alkarama sent a communication to the Special Rapporteur on Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, about Mr. Adel Al-Dhafeery who was arrested May 22, 2008 by agents of the Internal Security and transferred in their headquarters where he was brutally tortured.

Mr. Adel Al-Aqel Salem Dhafeery, aged 27 and living in Al-Jahra, Al-Ouyoun, Kuwait, was arrested May 22 in 2008 around 17 hours in Al-Jahra while travelling from his home in his vehicle. He was deliberately and violently bumped by a black police vehicle.