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Press : A Geneva NGO upsets Arab countries

9 September 08 - Over the past four years, the Geneva based NGO, Alkarama has filed thousands of complaints to the UN regarding human rights violations by Arab states.
10 Sep 2008
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Algeria introduces a Senator to serve on the Human Rights Committee

The States party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights will meet on the 4th of September in New York to renew half of the membership of Human Rights Committee.

On 29 August 2008, Alkarama wrote a letter to the High Commissioner for Human Rights to protest against the candidacy of Senator Lazhari Bouzid, and to express its concern about his possible election.

03 Sep 2008
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Saudi Arabia: Risk of imminent execution of death sentences in the wake of an unfair trial

Alkarama submitted, on 19 August 2008 the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions in relation to the imminent execution of three Saudi nationals, currently detained in the Al-Jouf  prison (Muhafadat Al Qariat).

The three defendants, Mr Khaled Mohammed Issa Al-Qadihi (26 years), Mr Qasim b. Ridha B. Suleyman Al-Mahdi (24 years) and Mr Ali Hassan Issa Al-Bouri (36 years), were arrested on 25 July 2004 at the Al-Haditha border post coming from Syria via Jordan.

22 Aug 2008
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Yemen: Arrest and detention of Mr Louay Al-Mouayyad

mouayyad_yemen.jpg On 10 August 2008 Alkarama submitted on a communication to the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, the Special Rapporteur on Torture, the Special Representative for Defenders of Human Rights and the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, asking them to intervene urgently in
16 Aug 2008
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United Arab Emirates: Arbitrary detention and unfair trial of Dr. Mansoor Al Shamsi

On 8 August 2008 Alkarama submitted a communication to the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and the Special Rapporteur on freedom of expression and opinion asking them to intervene on behalf of Dr Al Shamsi, who was arrested on 6 May 2007 and conviction by an unfair trail to five years of prison of by the United Arab Emirates authorities.

Dr Mansoor Jassem Al Shamsi was born on 5 May 1965. He is married with four children, and lives in Sharjah, in the United Arab Emirates.

11 Aug 2008
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Yemen: Arbitrary arrest and detention without due process of law by Mr Abdullah Al-Rimi

On 5 August 2008 Alkarama submitted a communication to the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and the Special Rapporteur on torture concerning Mr Abdullah Al-Rimi.
08 Aug 2008
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Saudi Arabia: Arbitrary detention and no due process of law for over four years for Mr Nasser Al Hadiqi

On 1st of August 2008, Alkarama submitted a communication to the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention asking the Working Group to intervene in the case of Mr Nasser Al Hadiqi. He was wounded by gunfire during his arrest on 8 April 2004, and held since then without having any charges brought against him

Mr Nasser Ali Abdullah Al Hadiqi  is a citizen of Yemen and usually resides with his family in Aden (Yemen). He is 40 years old and worked  in a restaurant in Riyadh in Saudi Arabia.

02 Aug 2008
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United Arab Emirates: arbitrary arrest and detention of Mr. Hassan Al-Diqqi, defender of human rights

Alkarama submitted, on July 29th 2008, a communication to the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, as well as to the Special Representative for Defenders of Human Rights and the Special Rapporteur on freedom of expression regarding Mr. Hassan Al-Diqqi, a human rights defender, currently being held at the central prison of Sharjah.

Mr.

30 Jul 2008
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Mauritania: Incommunicado detention, torture and risk of forcible return to Tunisia of Mr. Abdelkrim Bouraoui

Alkarama wrote a communication on 22 July 2008 to the Special Rapporteur on Torture  concerning Mr. Bouraoui, a Tunisian national, arrested on 3 May 2008 at Nouakchott.  He was detained incommunicado for 25 days and severely tortured. He was then taken to a military barracks of the army headquarters, where he is still detained.

Mr.Abdelkrim Ben Fraj Bouraoui, born in 1980 in Tunisia, owns a trade of vehicle spare parts in Nouakchott where he has regularly resided since 2005.

24 Jul 2008
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Saudi Arabia: a sign of life from Mr. Mahmoud Hozbor, detained incommunicado.

Alkarama has learned that Mr.
21 Jul 2008
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