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On 26 December 2022, Alkarama joined several Lebanese civil society organisations in seizing the UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (SPT) and relevant UN Special Procedure mandate holders with a call for urgent action concerning the situation in Roumieh prison and other Lebanese detention centres.

Dr. Abdul Rahman Al-Hamid, a human rights activist and member of the Association for Civil and Political Rights "ACPRA", was released by the Saudi authorities after serving nine years in prison following an unfair trial for his peaceful activism. However, he remains under a travel ban for another nine years.

On 23 December 2022, Alkarama sent an urgent appeal to the Special Rapporteur on Torture regarding the situation of Tawfiq Al Mansoori, Harith HAMID and Abdul Khaleq AMRAN, Yemeni journalists who were subjected to torture while in detention in the Central Security Camp prison in the Yemeni capital, Sana'a.

On 19 December 2022 Iraq was urged by the UN Committee against Enforced Disappearances (CED) to reveal the fate of Salam Al Boumahidi and Hazim Al Ezzawi, Iraqi citizens who disappeared during 2014 following their abduction by the Iraqi army.

On 29 November 2022, Alkarama submitted the case of Mustafa Faraj Mohammad Masud AL JADID AL UZAYBI (also known as “Abu Faraj AL LIBI”) to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD). This Libyan national has been arbitrarily detained in Guantánamo Bay detention centre since his transfer from a CIA “black site” on 4 September 2006.

In December 2022, the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) called again the Saudi authorities to release immediately 70-year-old religious scholar Safar bin Abdulrahman Al Hawali.

On 30 November 2022, Alkarama alerted the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention on the situation of Mr Khaled bin Mohamed AL RASHED, detained since 2006 and sentenced to 15 years imprisonment for having publicly criticized the policies of the country's leaders.

In a decision dated 25 November 2022, the United Nations Human Rights Committee has clearly established once again the responsibility of Algeria for the violations suffered by one of the victims of the repression of the 1990s, Tawfik DJAOU, who has been missing since his abduction in Constantine by agents of the Department of Intelli

International Human Rights Day, 10 December, commemorates the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and with it the introduction of common human rights standards “for all peoples and all nations”. This day serves also as a stark reminder that, whenever and wherever humanity's values are abandoned, humanity is at greater risk. Yet, today, the people of Yemen have been abandoned by the international community.

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