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Alkarama expresses deep concern and strongly condemns the unjust sanctions imposed by the government of the United States of America against Ms. Francesca Albanese, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories.

In its Opinion No. 1/2025, issued on 1 April 2025, the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) concluded that the detention of Yemeni national Mohsen Saleh Nasser Al-Awlaqi was arbitrary and remains unlawful, in clear violation of international law.

On 30 May 2025, the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) issued Opinion No. 37/2025, concluding that the detention of Bassam Al Jalladi, a Yemeni national detained in Saudi Arabia since 2019, is arbitrary. 

United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) issues Opinion No. 2/2025 regarding Judge Bechir Akremi, former Attorney General and academic, arbitrarily detained in Tunisia. 

The authorities of the United Arab Emirates are continuing their campaign of repression and intimidation against prisoners of conscience and political opponents, using the justice system and anti-terrorism laws as tools in their war against human rights.

The Saudi authorities have released academic Khaled Alodah, brother of the prominent preacher and scholar Dr. Salman bin Fahd Alodah, after eight years of arbitrary detention. He had been arrested for sharing information about his brother’s arrest, who remains arbitrarily detained under inhumane conditions, despite a decision by the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) describing the detention of both brothers as a flagrant violation of international law. 

‏On the occasion of 26 June, the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture- which symbolizes the global commitment to ending the practice of torture and other ill-treatment- we, the undersigned organizations, express our deep concern over the ongoing impunity for the crime of torture in Lebanon and the lack of effective implementation of the Anti-Torture Law enacted in 2017.

‏On this day, the United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture (26 June), the undersigned human rights organizations reaffirm that the crime of torture continues to be practiced systematically in several Arab countries, in blatant violation of human dignity and international law—especially the UN Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, which most Arab governments have ratified.

Alkarama has learned from Saudi human rights sources that the authorities have finally released Abdulaziz Al-Shubaily, a human rights activist and member of the Saudi Association for Civil and Political Rights (ACPRA), after nearly eight years of detention. 

Ten years ago, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed, through its resolution A/RES/69/293 dated 19 June 2015, the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict, observed each year on 19 June.