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Alkarama for Human Rights has addressed a letter to the Working Group on Forced Disappearances to inform it of new developments regarding the disappearance of Mr. Abdelatif Al Raqoubi, who disappeared on 16 June 2006.
Alkarama for Human Rights has referred the case of Ahmed Ali Abdullah, a Yemeni national born 9 March 1969 and detained at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp from 2002 until his death, to the UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Executions.
Alkarama for Human Rights has communicated to the Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Execution the latest developments on the issue of Mounir Hammouche, who died of the tortures he underwent in police custody.  The family of the deceased has been trying since early February 2007 to get a report on the autopsy which would have been conducted by order of the security force.  All the letters sent to the public prosecutor of the Bordj Bou Arreridj court and of the Ras El Oued tribunal have gone unanswered.

Alkarama for Human Rights urges the Special Rapporteur on Extrajudic

Good news for human rights activists and victims of abuses in the Arab world, especially those living in Britain: the British courts have ruled today that it is not possible to hand over Libyan nationals to the Libyan government, due to its being a government that not only has a horrifying human rights record but also lacks any credibility, whose leader, Qaddafi, cannot be trusted.

Alkarama for Human Rights has asked the Special Representative of the Secretary General on the situation of human rights defenders to intervene in the case of Walid Ali Ahmed Lamri, a Saudi human rights defender and a member of Alkarama.

On 27 April 2007 Walid Lamri, 24, a student residing in Jeddah, was arrested at his family home at 9pm by the Saudi intelligence services. His family was able to learn, however uncertain, that he is currently being and detained at the intelligence services headquarters in Taif.

Alkarama has organised a training course for human rights defenders in Doha, Qatar, 28-30 March 2007.
This course was taken by more than 25 human rights lawyers and activists from many Arab countries.

 

Doha Training Course

 

The main topics addressed in this course were:

Alkarama for Human Rights has just submitted the case of Sulaiman Ibrahim Saleh Al Rashoudi to the Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers and Special Representative of the Secretary General on the situation of human rights defenders. Mr Al Rashoud, born in 1935 and living in Riyadh, is a lawyer, activist and human rights defender working on civil liberties in Saudi Arabia. He worked mainly on the defence of prisoners of conscience.
Alkarama for Human Rights submitted the cases of Dr. Al-Hashimi and eight other persons known to the Saudi civil society to the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, the Special Rapporteur on Torture, the Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression and the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights while countering terrorism today.

Dr. Saud Mukhtar Al-Hashimi, a medical doctor aged 45, is a public figure in the movement for constitutional reform in Saudi Arabia.

Alkarama, July 19, 2006

 

Alkarama, June 19, 2006 

With the first meeting of the UNHRC taking place today, major aspersions have been cast over the ability of the body to be able to function in an effective manner. The presence of Arab states of torture on the member list raises questions as to the bona fide nature of this body.

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