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Alkarama has learned that Mr. Adel Abdelmalek, a former gendarme, has been sentenced to eight years in prison by Algeria's military judiciary on fabricated charges according to the victim's family. 

The UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances has called on the Iraqi government to provide clarification regarding the case of Ali Alwan Khalaf AL JANABI, an Iraqi citizen who died following his execution by state authorities in April 2021. 

AL JANABI was missing since his kidnapping on 2 July 2014 from his home located in the Al Askari neighborhood of Al Mazraa in the Latifiya governorate (south of Baghdad) by several members of the army. 

On January 31, 2024, the Association of Victims of Torture in Tunisia (AVTT) and Alkarama submitted to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detentions (WGAD), the situation of Mr. Bechir AKREMI, magistrate, arbitrarily arrested and held in detention for almost a year today. 

Arrest and continued detention

Alkarama has learned that the Libyan authorities have released Libyan citizen Ali Suleiman Masoud Abdel Sayed last Thursday, 25 January 2024, after more than seven years of arbitrary detention. 

Alkarama expresses its concern about the disappearance of Libyan activist Nasser Fathallah Mansour Ali AL HAWARI in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, since the evening of Monday, January 29, 2024. 

Alkarama for Human Rights highlighted the dire consequences of the “double standards” policies that have unfortunately become a clear feature of most Western states and may ultimately be a greater threat to the values of human rights and peace in the world. 

On 23 January 2024, Alkarama adressed to the UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Executions about developments concerning the deceased Yemeni businessman, Abdulsamed Esmail Mohammed Salem (Al Mohammadi), about whom the Fourth Saudi Criminal Court in the Jazan region ordered the closure of the criminal proceedings acquitting him of all charges.

Mohamed Attaoui, a Moroccan political detainee and environmental activist, has gone on hunger strike to protest the lack of a decision in a fabricated case. 

Attaoui, a member of the National Authority for the Protection of Public Funds, has been detained at the local prison of Midelt in eastern Morocco since 8 December 2023 amid charges of insulting public officials in what he says is a trumped-up case. He is on hunger strike and demands that his case be examined, decided and immediately released. 

On 27 December 2023, Alkarama urgently submitted to the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial executions, the case of the former Libyan Minister of Defence, Mr Al Mahdi AL BARGHATHI, who was allegedly executed after being arrested with his companions on 6 October 2023 by members of the "Tariq bin Ziyad Brigade", a militia led by Khalifa Haftar's son, Saddam Haftar, in the Al-Salmani Al-Sharqi neighborhood of Benghazi (eastern Libya). 

On 22 December 2023, Alkarama submitted to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, the case of Ms Ouahiba KHOURCHECH, a former Moroccan police officer, and her minor daughter, both victims of multiple gender-based violations.