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In a follow-up report addressed to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD), Alkarama denounced the persistent inaction of Libya and Saudi Arabia regarding the implementation of opinions issued between 2023 and 2025 concerning several cases of arbitrary detention. 

According to human rights sources, Saudi authorities are reportedly planning to retry lawyer Mohammed Saleh Al-Bajadi, even though he completed his sentence in 2023. 

Alkarama had already referred the case of lawyer and human rights defender Mohammed Al-Bajadi to the United Nations Special Procedures on human rights. According to the account Prisoners of Conscience, the court now plans to retry him. 

On October 2, the world celebrates the International Day of Non-Violence, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in its resolution 61/271 of June 15, 2007, with the aim of promoting a culture of peace, tolerance, understanding and non-violence. 

The signatory organizations express their strong indignation and firmly reject the operation carried out on the evening of Tuesday, October 1, by Israeli occupation forces, who forcibly intercepted and detained civilian ships of the Resilience Flotilla while they were sailing in international waters. These vessels were heading towards the Gaza Strip as part of a humanitarian mission aimed at breaking the blockade, carrying nearly 500 activists from more than fifty countries. 

Alkarama and the Association of Victims of Torture in Tunisia (AVTT) have submitted a joint complaint to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) concerning Mr. Noureddine BHIRI, lawyer, former Member of Parliament and former Tunisian Minister of Justice, who has been detained on political grounds since his arrest on 13 February 2023. 

September 21, 2025, marks the International Day of Peace, established by United Nations General Assembly Resolution 55/282 (7 September 2001) dedicated to the cessation of hostilities worldwide, the rejection of violence and the promotion of a culture of peace based on education, awareness and international cooperation. 

The United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory stated in a report published on Tuesday, 16 September 2025, that the State of Israel has committed genocide against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip.

Yemeni businessman Abdullah Ali Abdulhafidh ABDELWAHAB remains detained at Abu Dhabi’s federal prison, known as Al-Sadr, in conditions that contravene international human rights standards. His contact with his family is extremely limited: when he is allowed to make a phone call, it never lasts more than one minute, deepening the anguish and distress of his relatives. 

We, the international human rights organizations listed below, express our deep concern regarding the detention of Egyptian citizen Ali Mahmoud Abdel-Wanis in Nigeria and the increasing risk of his forced extradition to Egypt. We are preparing to submit a complaint to the United Nations Special Procedures to request their intervention to prevent the extradition of Ali Mahmoud Abdel-Wanis. We also urge the Nigerian authorities to immediately suspend any extradition measures, given that Mr.

Joint statement on the occasion of the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, 30 August.

On the occasion of the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, Arab and international human rights organizations express their deep concern over the persistence and spread of this scourge in several Arab countries, making the region one of the world’s epicenters of this practice. 

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