Articles | Alkarama

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

The journalist Sami El Haj in Geneva from June 24, 2008

The Al Jazeera journalist Sami El Haj will be in Geneva 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 May 1, 2008.

Sami El Haj will be in Geneva to testify on his long years of arbitrary detention and torture he suffered on the U.S. military base at Guantanamo Bay where he was detained without charge or legal procedure for nearly seven long years.

20 Jun 2008

Tunisia before the Human Rights Council: Offensive “pseudo NGOs” and tailored recommendations

Alkarama for Human Rights, June 13, 2008

13 Jun 2008

Morocco UPR before the Human Rights Council: When the essentials are hidden

Alkarama for Human Rights, June 12, 2008

12 Jun 2008

Algeria to the Council on Human Rights: The rejection of the recommendations "unfortunate"

Alkarama for Human Rights, June 11, 2008

The Human Rights Council adopted the final report on Algeria under the Universal Periodic Review on June 10, 2008.

11 Jun 2008

Alkarama Open Day 2008

On the occasion of the publication of its 2007 annual report, Alkarama for Human Rights organised an "Open Day" event on Wednesday, June 11, 2008, from 15.00 to 19.00.

23 May 2008

Algeria before the Committee against Torture : The failure of the rhetoric of war

Alkarama for Human Rights, May 6, 2008

Representatives of Alkarama attended the periodic review of Algerian by the Committee against Torture (CAT) held on 2 and 5 May 2008. Our organization had submitted a few weeks earlier an alternative report to the Committee.

06 May 2008

Guantanamo / USA: Release of Sami Al Hajj after 6 ½ years of detention

On 2 May 2008, Sami Al Hajj, a cameraman for Al Jazeera, was finally released. He was arrested on December 15, 2001, near the Pakistan border and detained at Guantanamo Bay. He was taken, handcuffed, in an American plane to Khartoum airport. He was handed over to the Sudanese authorities and was immediately transferred to the Amal hospital. He managed to give his first interview although he did look very weak.

The U.S.

03 May 2008

Human Rights Watch : UN, Mixed Results for New Review Process

States Avoid Serious Discussion of Rights in Algeria, Tunisia

(Geneva, April 18, 2008) – The first session of the new country review mechanism of the UN Human Rights Council was undermined by inconsistencies and the timidity of some governments in reviewing others, Human Rights Watch said today. On April 18, 2008 the council concluded a two-week session in which it examined the records of 16 countries as part of the new Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process.

25 Apr 2008

Arab Charter on Human Rights: Written in 1994, it is enforced in 2008

Alkarama for Human Rights, March 21, 2008

The Arab Charter on Human Rights was adopted by the Arab League in 1994. It has been signed by only one state, Iraq, among the 22 members of the League. None of them had ratified it. An updating process has been initiated and led to an amended and adopted version by the Arab summit in Tunis in 2004.

The Arab Charter on Human Rights entered into force on March 16, 2008, 60 days after ratification of the seventh member state of the Arab League.

21 Mar 2008