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Morocco: Alkarama highlights need to follow through positive developments with legislative changes

In November 2011, the UN Committee against Torture reviewed Morocco, and requested it provide information about several urgent issues that needed to be addressed within one year.
01 Oct 2012
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Jordan: Imminent risk of torture of Ashraf Abdulsalam following deportation

Deported to Jordan in September, 28-year-old Ashraf Abdulsalam is currently seriously at risk of being subjected to torture, as was already the case in 2010.
27 Sep 2012
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Morocco: Director of Tiflet prison threatens detainees once Special Rapporteur on Torture leaves

"Your protector Mendez has gone now...," threatened the governor of Tiflet Prison... Less than a week after the end of the UN Special Rapporteur's - Juan E. Mendez - official visit to Morocco, a high ranking prison official threatened inmates at Tiflet Prison. While Mr Mendez's visit appeared to be a promising sign that Morocco is willing to cooperate with the UN, Alkarama is alarmed by these words uttered by such a high-ranking official.
Mr Juan E. Mendez, UN Special Rapporteur on torture, was in Morocco from 14 to the 22 September 2012.
27 Sep 2012
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Saudi Arabia: Young Saudi sentenced to life imprisonment is denied access to medical care and subjected to physical and psychological tortures

Suleiman Al Ayed, 29 year-old Saudi national, has been imprisoned in Al-Hayer prison, in Riyadh, for eight years. For five years, he was detained without any legal proceedings, held in solitary confinement in the dark and severely tortured. Today, Mr Al Ayed's psychological and physical condition is seriously alarming, yet the Saudi authorities have continuously refused to give him access to medical care.
On 14 October 2003, Suleiman Al Ayed was arrested in Yemen before being deported to Saudi Arabia seven months later on 19 May 2004.
26 Sep 2012
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ALKARAMA AWARD 2012

Two human rights activists from the Gulf to receive Alkarama Award

Geneva – 26 September 2012 - "Imprisonment has never changed someone's ideas... Oppression has never postponed the coming of tomorrow" said last year's Alkarama Award laureate, Aida Saif Al Dawla of Egypt, in a video announcing the Alkarama Foundation's choice of two leading human rights figures from the Gulf region as the Laureates for the 2012 Alkarama Award.

25 Sep 2012
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Iraq: Execution of a Tunisian detainee in Al Rusafa Prison

Iraqi authorities should investigate the circumstances surrounding the death of Tunisian detainee Abdullah Al Matoui, assassinated in Al Rusafa Prison, Baghdad.

On 2 August 2012, Abdullah Habib Abdullah Al Matoui, a Tunisian citizen detained in Iraqi prison since 2005 was attacked and killed inside Al Rusafa prison in Baghdad.

17 Sep 2012
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UAE: Enforced Disappearance and Torture

Reveal Activist's Whereabouts; Investigate Torture Allegations

United Arab Emirates (UAE) authorities should immediately bring a victim of enforced disappearance, Ahmed al-Suweidi, before judicial authorities and open a thorough and impartial investigation into credible allegations of torture at State Security facilities. Human Rights Watch was joined in its statement by Alkarama (Dignity), the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI), the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR), and Index on Censorship.

14 Sep 2012
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Morocco: Visit of the Special Rapporteur on Torture from 14-22 September 2012

The Special Rapporteur of the United Nations on Torture, Mr. Juan E. Méndez, will visit Morocco from 14-22 September 2012. Alkarama was pleased to see Morocco invite the UN expert to visit the country, in particular to visit places of detention and to hold a dialogue with the authorities regarding these locations.
14 Sep 2012
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Yemen: Alkarama and HOOD condemn the death of a Yemeni detainee in Guantanamo

American military authorities declared the death of a 32 year old detainee, Adnan Farhan Abdel Latif al-Sharaabi, in a statement issued on Tuesday 11 September 2012.
12 Sep 2012
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Yemen: Alkarama and HOOD organise a meeting with the families of the victims of the American drone attack of 2 December 2012

Alkarama's Yemen office, in cooperation with the National Organisation for Defending Rights and Freedoms "HOOD", organised today, Wednesday 5 September 2012, a meeting to hear the testimonies of the victims of the American drone attack on a civilian car in the Radaa area in the province of Bayda (170 Kilometres south east of the capital Sana) which took place last Sunday 2 September 2012. The raid killed 11 civilians including two children and two women.
The relatives of the victims spoke during the meeting about the magnitude of the tragedy caused by the American raid.
06 Sep 2012
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