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Alkarama denounces the recent mass death sentences of 188 Egyptian citizens, including 53 in absentia, by the Gizeh criminal court in the trial regarding the 14 August 2013 attack on Kerdasa police station, a few hours after the massacres of Raba'a Al Adawiya and Al Nahda.

On 24 November 2014, Alkarama sent an urgent appeal to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, Mr David Kaye, and to Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, Mr Michel Forst, on the case of Mr Mikhlif Al Shammari, a prominent Saudi human rights defender who has been sentenced to two years

On 20 November 2014, Alkarama and Human Rights Guardians sent a communication to the United Nation Working Group on Enforced Disappearances (WGEID), regarding the cases of two Syrian citizens disappeared from the village of Al Lataminah, in the Governorate of Hama.

On 4 December 2014, Alkarama sent an urgent appeal to the United Nations' Special Rapporteur on Torture (SRT) regarding the case of Radhouane Gharsallaoui, a 38-year-old father kidnapped four days earlier by the anti-terrorist squad, as part of a broader campaign of repression by the security services.

On 26 November 2014, Alkarama provided the Committeeon Enforced Disappearances (CED) with a list of 28 issues to be raised by the United Nations experts with the Iraqi authorities during their consideration of Iraq's initial report.

On 20 November 2014, Alkarama and Human Rights Guardians sent two communications to the United Nations Working Group on Enforced Disappearances (WGEID) concerning the cases of a 32 year-old Syrian citizen from Latakia, AbdulLatif Sabbagh, disappeared since his arrest over two years ago, a

Alkarama sent an urgent appeal to the United Nations' Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression regarding the arbitrary arrest of Abdullah Benaoum, prosecuted and brought before the Relizane Court after his attempt to denounce the discriminatory measures taken by the Chancellor of the University of Relizane against some Law students.

On 20 November 2014, Alkarama sent an Urgent Appeal to the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances as well as to the Special Rapporteur on torture on the case of Amer Alshava, a Turkish national, academician and businessman who was abducted on 2 October 2014 at Dubai's Airport, UAE. His whereabouts remain unknown to date.

On 6 November 2014, Alkarama sent an urgent appeal to the Special Rapporteur on Torture (SRT) concerning the case of Sabri Ahmed Mehdi, a father of six detained and tortured since his arrest by the Egyptian authorities on 22 July 2014.

On 20 November 2014, Alkarama sent an urgent appeal to the United Nations' Special Rapporteur on Torture (SRT), Juan Méndez, to bring to his attention the case of Bader Tossi Khorasani, a 25-year-old Iranian citizen born in Syria where he lived all his life, who faces imminent deportation to Iran where he could be subjected to further torture or even the death penalty.

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