Syria: Arbitrary detentions and killings in Sednaya prison

Alkarama today submitted to the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention the cases of Messrs Mustapha Kamel Houriya aged 52, Ahmed Abdelkader Kerroum and Youcef Amar Dehnine, both aged 41 years.

The three men from Idlib in northern Syria were arrested on 14 July 2007 in Damascus, where they had gone after being summoned by the military, and are currently being detained without charge in Sednaya prison, which was witness on 5 July 2008 to serious events in which prisoners were killed by the security services.

22 Oct 2008
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Lebanon: Convictions as a result of "confessions" extracted under torture

Alkarama has received additional information about nine people about whom it had addressed, in September 2007, a communication to the Special Rapporteur on torture. Alkarama thus informed the Special Rapporteur on 16 October 2008 that these persons were tried by a military court on the basis of confessions obtained under torture.

The people listed below were arrested in March-April 2006 and were victims of torture and inhuman and degrading treatment.

21 Oct 2008
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Lebanon: Torture, ill-treatment and prosecution of civilians before military courts

Alkarama submitted 13 cases of people being tortured in Lebanon to the Special Rapporteur on Torture, on 15 October 2008.
17 Oct 2008
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15 Oct 2008
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Libya: Salem Abdaslam reappears after more than nine months of having been disappeared

Alkarama for Human Rights has just learned that the Libyan authorities have informed the family of Mr Abdaslam of his current detention at the Ain Zara prison near Tripoli.
10 Oct 2008
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Libya: Release of Dr. Idriss Aboufaied for health reasons

Alkarama for Human Rights, TRIAL (Track Impunity Always), 9 October 2008
09 Oct 2008
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Saudi Arabia: The United Nations Working Group condemns Mr Amer Al Qahtani’s arbitrary detention

Alkarama has just been informed of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention’s opinion 11/2008 , issued on 9 May 2008, regarding Mr Amer Al Qahtani, imprisoned for more than 10 years. Alkarama had submitted two communications concerning him, the first dated 18 May 2006.

Mr Amer b. Said b. Mohamed Al Thaqfan Al Qahtani, a teacher, residing in Riyadh, was aged 29 years at the time of his arrest in March 1998.

08 Oct 2008
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Lebanon: Letter of Alkarama and other NGOs to the Minister of the Interior about the situation in prisons.

A month after the decision to open an investigation into allegations of corruption and mistreatment of prisoners, revealed by the television channel "NewTV, seven Lebanese and international human rights NGOs have sent today a letter to the Minister of Interior of Lebanon, Mr.
08 Oct 2008
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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
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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
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