On 8 and 9 October 2014, Alkarama delivered its key recommendations to the UN Member States' Permanent Missions for the second Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Egypt, which will be held on 5 November 2014.

Geneva/Beirut, 10 October 2014

During its 111th session, the United Nations Human Rights Committee (HRC) has established the Algerian authorities' responsibility in the murder of the FEDSI brothers on 19 April 1997 in the village of Tellata near Taher in the province of Jijel. The principal perpatrator of their summary execution is none other than the head of the Daira (district) of Taher, Fourar Meheni, accompanied by the head of the local police (Dark al Watani) and the Police Commissioner of Taher.

On 8 and 9 October 2014, Alkarama briefed country representatives on its priority recommendations in view of Iraq's Universal Periodic Review (UPR), which will be held in Geneva on 3 November 2014.

Alkarama sent today an urgent appeal to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) to follow-up on the situation of Mohamed Morsi, the former Egyptian president ousted by a military coup on 3 July 2013, and that of his Chief of staff, Mohamed Rifaat Al Tahtawi. Despite two hearings on 27 and 29 September, Morsi and Al Tahtawi did not appear in court, for alleged "security reasons".

Alkarama, in collaboration with Al Wissam Humanitarian Assembly, sent a communication to the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) to highlight the disappearance of Mohammed Al Aseymi, together with his three sons and nephew, since his abduction by pro-government militia in 2006.

On 29 September 2014, Alkarama and Human Rights Guardians wrote to the Working Group on Enforced Disappearances to alert them on the case of Ahmed Shaar, a 62 year-old Syrian shopkeeper from the port of Latakia, disappeared over a year ago after being abducted by pro-government militia, and asking the Working Group to urgently intervene with the Syrian authorities so they release him or put him under the protection of the law.

On 22 July 2014, Alkarama sent an urgent appeal to the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, copied to the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD), to bring their attention to the case of Abdullah Ahmed Mohammed Ismail Alfakharany, a 24 years old student at the University of Cairo, Journalist and co-Founder of a news platform, Rassd News Network (

On 24 September 2014, Alkarama sent a communication to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) regarding the case of Hind and Rachaa Munir Abd Al Wahab Ali Nassr, two sisters arrested and detained because of their participation in a peaceful sit-in in Cairo.

On 30 September 2014, Alkarama submitted an urgent appeal to the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) regarding the case of two Qatari nationals who have been detained incommunicado since their arrest on 27 June 2014 by United Arab Emirates' police.