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The United Nations Committee against Torture, initially seized by Alkarama on 30 October 2018, has recognized the responsibility of the Moroccan State due to the torture suffered by Mohamed Hajib following his arrest and conviction for alleged terrorist acts to ten years in prison based solely on confessions extracted under torture.

During its 135th session, which took place in Geneva from 27 June to 27 July 2022, the United Nations Human Rights Committee concluded to the responsibility of the Algerian State for the enforced disappearance of Boubekeur FERGANI in the 1990s. The Committee ruled on the case following a communication from Alkarama dated 26 May 2016.

On October 17, 2022, Iraq was called upon by the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances to reveal the fate of Iraqi citizen, Amer Al Kartani, who has been missing since he was abducted from his family home on May 21, 2014.

On 4 October 2022, Najda for Human Rights and Alkarama launched an urgent appeal to the UN Working Group on Enforced Disappearances regarding the situation of Mr Walid Fouad Al Ghunaimi AL MAGHAZI who was arrested in front of his home on 17 September 2022 at 1:00 am by several members of the Egyptian security services. 

On 30 September 2022, Alkarama submitted to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention the case of Abderrahmane Zitout who was arrested on 30 March 2022 at 6pm by a dozen armed police officers in plain clothes while he was in his clothing shop located on the ground floor of his family home.

Arrest of Mr. Aberrahmane Zitout

On 23 September 2022, Alkarama addressed the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention regarding the situation of Colonel Osama Muhammad Saleh AL GHAFIR AL OBEID who was captured in 2016 by General Khalifa Haftar's militia while securing oil installations in the Sirte region. 

Context

Despite numerous calls by independent UN experts to revise its anti-terrorism legislation, which violates both domestic and international law, the Algerian authorities have unlawfully registered 16 people on "terrorist" lists. 

On 14 September 2022, Alkarama submitted the situation of Aida AL GHAMDI and her son, Adel AL GHAMDI, to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention.

Both were arrested, without a judicial warrant, on 26 March 2018 by agents of the General Directorate of Investigations of the Ministry of Interior (the "Mabahiths") in plain clothes while driving in a neighborhood of Jeddah.

The facts

Several Saudi and foreign activists, NGOs and Alkarama launched a human rights campaign to demand the release of prisoners of conscience in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and to denounce the unjust rulings issued by the Saudi authorities recently, which affected a number of prisoners of conscience, including detainees whose sentences have expired or are nearing completion, in flagrant violation of the principles of justice and international laws and covenants.

On 05 August 2022, Alkarama submitted the cases of Ahmed Ghaith AL SUWAIDI, Ahmed AL ZAABI, Ali AL HAMMADI, Ibrahim AL MARZOOQI, Hassan AL JABIRI, Husain AL JABIRI, Shaheen ALHOSANI, Sultan Bin Kayed AL QASIMI, Abdulsalam Darwish AL MARZOOQI, Khalid Mohammed ALYAMMAHI to the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) regarding their continued detention in the Munasaha centres despite the expiry of their sentences.

Background