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Saudi Arabia: Arbitrary detention since 2004 of the engaged poet Saleh Al Hweiti

Alkarama for Human Rights sent a communication to the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) asking it to intervene in the case of Mr. Saleh Al Hweiti, engaged poet, arbitrarily detained since October 27, 2004.

Mr. Saleh Awad Saleh AL HWEITI was born in Riyadh in 1946. His father, former soldier who died in 1978, belongs to the vast nomadic Arab tribe of Anza from the Arabian peninsula that used to wander also in southern Jordan. He was stripped of his nationality in 1969 as part of his family was established in the desert of Jordan.

18 Jul 2008
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Saudi Arabia: M. Abdulrahim Al-Murbati, a native of Bahrain, missing since June 06, 2008

Alkarama sent a communication to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) asking it to intervene urgently with the Saudi authorities in the case of Mr. Abdulrahim Al-Murbati, Bahraini citizen, detained without due process of law since August 22, 2003 in Saudi Arabia and whose family has receiving no news about him since June 06, 2008.

Mr. Abdulrahim Ali Abdellah AL-MURBATI was born on December 28, 1960 in Bahrain, he is a merchant and his family lives in Bahrain.

16 Jul 2008
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Libya: Abdussalam Il-Khwildy's case before the Human Rights Committee

On 3 July 2008, Alkarama for Human Rights and TRIAL (Track Impunity Always) have jointly submitted an individual communication to the United Nations Human Rights Committee  regarding the case of Mr. Abdussalam Il-Khwildy, a victim of serious human rights violations by the Libyan authorities.

Abdussalam-Khwildy was born on October 18, 1967, holds a degree in economics, works as an entrepreneur, is married and father of five children and lives in Benghazi, Libya.

07 Jul 2008
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Kuwait: Torture and ill-treatment of Mr. Al-Dhafeery

Alkarama sent a communication to the Special Rapporteur on Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, about Mr. Adel Al-Dhafeery who was arrested May 22, 2008 by agents of the Internal Security and transferred in their headquarters where he was brutally tortured.

Mr. Adel Al-Aqel Salem Dhafeery, aged 27 and living in Al-Jahra, Al-Ouyoun, Kuwait, was arrested May 22 in 2008 around 17 hours in Al-Jahra while travelling from his home in his vehicle. He was deliberately and violently bumped by a black police vehicle.

04 Jul 2008
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Yemen: The Working Group of the United Nations finds that the detention of Mr. Al Chouiter was arbitrary

Alkarama has just been officially informed by the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) of the Opinion 9 / 2008 of 8 May 2008 on Arbitrary Detention which has been the victim M. Saqar Al Chouiter, arrested April 7, 2007 and released after 52 days of detention.

Alkarama had requested the WGAD in a communication dated May 9, 2007 that it declares the detention of Mr. Al Chouiter as arbitrary.

03 Jul 2008
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Algeria: enforced disappearance of Adel Saker

Alkarama wrote on June 30, 2008 a communication to the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) and the Special Rapporteur on Torture to ask them to intervene urgently with the Algerian authorities in the case of Mr. Adel Saker, a victim of enforced disappearance since May 26, 2008.

Mr. Saker Adel, born on January 28, 1977, had already been arrested in 1994 when he was a minor and held for three years before being released.

02 Jul 2008
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Alkarama invites Sami El Haj to Geneva

ALKARAMA for Human Rights

On the occasion of the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture (June 26)

The journalist Sami El Haj in Geneva from 24-28 June 2008 to testify about his
7 years of detention without inculpation at Guantanamo

01 Jul 2008
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United Arab Emirates: The UN Working Group condemns the detention of Mr. Abdullah Al-Alili

Alkarama has just been officially notified of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention's (WGAD) opinion of May 7, 2008 , declaring arbitrary and in violation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights the deprivation of liberty of Mr.
01 Jul 2008
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Sami El Hajj successfully ends his visit to Geneva

The Al Jazeera journalist Sami El Haj was in Geneva during the week of June 24, 2008, at the invitation of the Alkarama  Foundation for Human Rights for his first trip abroad since his release from Guantanamo on 1 May 2008. Sami El Haj was accompanied by the Executive Director of Civic Aid International Organization (CAIO), Mr. Hassan Elmogummer.

As is well known, Mr El Hajj is a Sudanese journalist for Aljazeera television. During the course of his work he was apprehended on the Pakistani border at the end of December 2001.

01 Jul 2008
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AP : Guantanamo detainees made to feel like 'nomads'

By FRANK JORDANS
Associated Press Writer
June 27, 2008

Detainees at Guantanamo Bay are turned into "nomads" to keep them agitated and to punish those who break rules, a Sudanese journalist recently released from the U.S. military prison said Friday.

Sami al-Haj said moving detainees between camps and from cell to cell appeared to be part of an official policy to destabilize them. "They were made into nomads," the Al-Jazeera journalist said.

28 Jun 2008
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