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On 18 June 2025, Alkarama submitted an urgent appeal to the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID), as well as to other UN mechanisms, concerning five Syrian citizens abducted by the internal security forces loyal to General Khalifa Haftar and his affiliates in Benghazi, eastern Libya, on 11 December 2024. 

United Nations General Assembly Resolution No. A/RES/75/309, dated 21 July 2021, on the “Promotion of interreligious and intercultural dialogue and tolerance in countering hate speech,” proclaimed 18 June as the International Day for Countering Hate Speech.

Alkarama firmly condemns the execution of Saudi journalist and activist Turki Al-Jasser by the Saudi authorities, approximately seven years after his arrest and enforced disappearance on charges related to the exercise of his right to freedom of expression and opinion.

‏The undersigned human rights organizations express their strong condemnation and profound concern over the escalating campaign of repression against freedom of expression and solidarity with the people of Gaza in Egypt.  

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, said he was shocked by the grave human rights violations recently uncovered in both official and unofficial detention centers operated by the Stability Support Apparatus in Tripoli.

On 3 June 2025, within the framework of the procedure initiated before the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, Alkarama submitted a new follow-up report aimed at denouncing the Comorian President, Mr Azali Assoumani's, persistent refusal to release the former president and political rival, Mr Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi, by implementing Opinion No.

June 4 marks the International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression, a commemoration that takes on particularly tragic significance this year, as the children of Gaza endure a daily nightmare. Israeli deadly attacks pursue them even into displacement zones, the streets, tents, and even their hospital beds. 

Alkarama received a report from the lawyer of Mr. Mohamed Ziane — former Minister of Human Rights, former President of the Rabat Bar Association, and founder and leader of the Moroccan Liberal Party — who has been detained for nearly 30 months in Arjate prison. The report confirms that Mr. Ziane has filed a cassation appeal against Decision No. 8 issued by the Financial Criminal Appeals Chamber of the Rabat Court of Appeal on May 7, 2025, which sentenced him to three years of effective imprisonment.

Alkarama has informed the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) of the reappearance of a number of victims of enforced disappearance in Libya, whose cases had previously been submitted by Alkarama. The victims were recently freed by government authorities from several secret prisons formerly controlled by armed militias. 

The UN Independent Expert on the enjoyment of all human rights by older persons, Claudia Mahler, expressed her regret at the Saudi authorities’ refusal to allow her to visit Safar bin Abdulrahman al-Hawali and Salman bin Fahd Al Awdah in their place of

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