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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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15 Oct 2008

The Independent : Secrets of Iraq's death chamber

Prisoners are being summarily executed in the government's high-security detention centre in Baghdad. Robert Fisk reports

Like all wars, the dark, untold stories of the Iraqi conflict drain from its shattered landscape like the filthy waters of the Tigris. And still the revelations come.

The Independent has learnt that secret executions are being carried out in the prisons run by Nouri al-Maliki's "democratic" government.

08 Oct 2008

Time magazine - Six Years Inside Gitmo: A Journalist's Tale

Both John McCain and Barack Obama have said they would shut the U.S. military detention facility at Guantánamo Bay, where about 250 men remain behind bars — some in their eighth year of captivity. But neither presidential candidate has outlined when and how they plan to do it. One man ready to offer them some free advice on the problem of Guantánamo is Sami Al-Hajj, an al-Jazeera TV cameraman recently freed, without facing charges, after six and a half years at Guantánamo.

30 Sep 2008

Emirates : Universal Periodic Review at the Human Rights Council

The third session of the Universal Periodic Review of the Human Rights Council will start on December 1, 2008. This session will review the United Arab Emirates. In this framework, Alkarama presented a contribution on July 14, 2008.

United Arab Emirates

Universal Periodic Review (UPR)

Third session from 1 – 15 December 2008

18 Sep 2008

Protest against a nomination to the UN Human Rights Committee.

Abdel Wahab Hani, on behalf of the NGO Alkarama (Dignity) and the Arab Commission of Human Rights, protested against the nomination of an Egyptian diplomat, Ahmed Amin Fathalla as member of the UN Human Rights Committee during a meeting last week between the NGO and the president of the Council, the Nigerian, Martin Ihoeghian Uhomoibhi.

The Committee is made up of independent people who are responsible for monitoring the application of the international Pact on civil and political rights, one of the two pillars of the UN. M.

15 Sep 2008

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

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

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

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