Mauritania: Working group issues opinion in case of 18 detainees

Alkarama for Human Rights, 10 juin 2007

10 Jun 2007
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Saudi Arabia: Dr. Said Ben Zair rearrested

Alkarama for Human Rights, 9 June 2007

Dr. Said ben Zair, aged 57, professor of sciences and information at Riyadh University, was arrested in Riyadh on 6 June 2007.  He is well-known in the country for his spirit of independence and the public positions he holds on the need for institutional reforms in the country as well as for his support for the reformists’ movement.

09 Jun 2007
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USA: Another suspicious death at Guantanamo Bay

Alkarama for Human Rights, 8 June 2007

Abdul Rahman Ma’ath Thafir, a Saudi citizen, was found dead in his cell on 29 May 2007 at GuantanamoBay camp.  The American military authorities concluded that it was an “apparent suicide.”

08 Jun 2007
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Mauritania: Acquital and freeing of detainees

Alkarama for Human Rights has learned that on 5 June 2007, the criminal tribunal of Nouakchott acquitted 21 people who had been arrested between April and June 2005 and were held secretly for many weeks.  During this period the detainees suffered serious torture.  While three of them escaped prison, eight were provisionally freed on 27 July 2006 and the remaining ten were left in detention until being freed today.
06 Jun 2007
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Libya: Details on the forced disappearance of Abdelatif Al Raqoubi

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.
01 Jun 2007
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US: Ahmed Ali Abdullah’s death in detention at the Guantanamo Bay camps

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.
29 May 2007
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Algeria: Death of Mounir Hammouche following torture

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

29 May 2007
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British courts rule Qaddafi untrustworthy torturer

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.

27 May 2007
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Saudi Arabia: Walid Ali Ahmed Lamri arrested after documenting human rights violations

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.

30 Apr 2007
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Doha Training Course

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:

03 Apr 2007
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