Alkarama had documented hundreds of cases of enforced disappearance and secret detention in Egypt since the July 2013 coup, despite the Egyptian authorities’ continued denial of the existence of such a phenomenon in the country, stated Mohamed Al-Ahmadi, legal researcher and Head of Communications and Media at the organisation.

Every year on 30 August, the world marks the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, established by the United Nations General Assembly in resolution 65/209 of 21 December 2010, in recognition of the suffering of hundreds of thousands of people subjected to this grave violation in more than 85 countries around the world over the past several decades. 

On 8 May 2026, Alkarama sent a new letter to Dr Hala bint Mazyed Altuwaijri, President of the Saudi Human Rights Commission, the country’s National Human Rights Institution (NHRI), calling on her, within the framework of the Commission’s mandate, to encourage and ensure the effective implementation of several opinions of the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) and d

Alkarama and the Lebanese NGO, Cedar Centre for Legal Studies (CCLS), have called on the United Nations Committee against Torture to resume its periodic review of Lebanon at the earliest opportunity, after the process was suspended for several years. 

22 August marks the International Day Commemorating Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief, established by the United Nations General Assembly in resolution 73/296, adopted on 28 May 2019. 

Alkarama has learned that the Emirati authorities have released Yemeni businessman Abdullah Ali Abdulhafidh Abdelwahab after nearly four years of arbitrary detention, in connection with posts in which he criticised Emirati airstrikes targeting forces affiliated with the internationally recognised government of Yemen. 

On 19 August, the world marks World Humanitarian Day, established by the United Nations to honour the victims of the 2003 bombing of its headquarters in Baghdad, at a time when humanitarian workers and aid personnel are facing one of the most severe waves of systematic attacks ever recorded in armed conflict, particularly in the occupied Gaza Strip. 

Thirteen years after the massacre at Rabaa al-Adawiya and al-Nahda squares, justice remains elusive. 

On 14 August 2013, Egyptian security forces and the army stormed the two peaceful sit-ins calling for the return of elected President Mohamed Morsi, who had been ousted in the 3 July coup d’état that same year, in an operation described as one of the deadliest episodes of protest repression in Egypt’s recent history. 

Alkarama Documents the Massacre 

On 15 July 2026, Alkarama submitted a contribution to the United Nations Human Rights Committee (CCPR) as part of the drafting of its General Comment on Article 22 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), which protects t

The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) has adopted Opinion No. 76/2025, finding that the deprivation of liberty of Hassan Elfargani Salem, a member of Libya's House of Representatives, and his brother Mohamed Elfargani Salem was arbitrary under international law.