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Lebanon: Act Now on Steps to Prevent Torture

Country’s Report on Torture Is Seven Years Overdue
Lebanon should take concrete and public measures to stop the use of torture in detention facilities and submit a long-overdue report on the subject to the United Nations, a group of eight Lebanese and international human rights organizations said today.

Lebanon ratified the United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment in 2000, but it has yet to submit a report that was due seven years ago – on Novemb

05 Nov 2008
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Human rights in Iraq : an Iraqi Delegation in Geneva

Alkarama has invited personalities from Iraq to give first hand information and testimonies about the situation of human rights in the country. The delegation visted Geneva from 29-31 October 2008.

Alkarama's guests are :

01 Nov 2008
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USA: Arbitrary detention of three Sudanese nationals in Guantanamo Bay camps

Alkarama for Human Rights submitted, on 29 October 2008, a communication to the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention to inform them of the arbitrary detention of three Sudanese nationals in the U.S. military base at Guantanamo Bay. All three have meanwhile been released.

Adil Hassan Hamad Al-Muttaleb has, since 1999, worked for an Islamic charity which in particular looked after Afghan refugees in Pakistan.

31 Oct 2008
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Libya: Mr. Mjber Abdaslam, arbitrarily detained for over 10 months

Alkarama submitted today a communication to the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention asking it to intervene in the case of Mr. Mohamed Salem Mjber Abdaslam, arrested on 28 December 2007, disappeared for 8 months and detained arbitrarily.

Mr. Mohamed Salem Mjber ABDASLAM, Libyan citizen, aged 34 years and residing in Sweden, travelled on 24 December 2007 in Libya to visit his parents residing in Zliten, a city located about 150 kilometers east of Tripoli.

23 Oct 2008
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Syria: Arbitrary detentions and killings in Sednaya prison

Alkarama today submitted to the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention the cases of Messrs Mustapha Kamel Houriya aged 52, Ahmed Abdelkader Kerroum and Youcef Amar Dehnine, both aged 41 years.

The three men from Idlib in northern Syria were arrested on 14 July 2007 in Damascus, where they had gone after being summoned by the military, and are currently being detained without charge in Sednaya prison, which was witness on 5 July 2008 to serious events in which prisoners were killed by the security services.

22 Oct 2008
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Lebanon: Convictions as a result of "confessions" extracted under torture

Alkarama has received additional information about nine people about whom it had addressed, in September 2007, a communication to the Special Rapporteur on torture. Alkarama thus informed the Special Rapporteur on 16 October 2008 that these persons were tried by a military court on the basis of confessions obtained under torture.

The people listed below were arrested in March-April 2006 and were victims of torture and inhuman and degrading treatment.

21 Oct 2008
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Lebanon: Torture, ill-treatment and prosecution of civilians before military courts

Alkarama submitted 13 cases of people being tortured in Lebanon to the Special Rapporteur on Torture, on 15 October 2008.
17 Oct 2008
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15 Oct 2008
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Libya: Salem Abdaslam reappears after more than nine months of having been disappeared

Alkarama for Human Rights has just learned that the Libyan authorities have informed the family of Mr Abdaslam of his current detention at the Ain Zara prison near Tripoli.
10 Oct 2008
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Libya: Release of Dr. Idriss Aboufaied for health reasons

Alkarama for Human Rights, TRIAL (Track Impunity Always), 9 October 2008
09 Oct 2008
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