Saudi Arabia: Release of Dr Matrouk Al-Faleh on 11 January 2009

Dr Matrouk Al-Faleh, a member of the Arab Commission for Human Rights, who was arrested on 19 May 2008 by the intelligence services (Al Mabahith) and detained incommunicado at the Al Hayr prison near Riyadh, has just been released.

Alkarama and the Arab Commission for Human Rights had addressed a communication to the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention as well as the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of o

16 Jan 2009
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Algeria: Mounir Hammouche’s death under tortured examined by the UN

Alkarama submitted on 12 January 2009 an individual communication to the Committee against torture asking it to examine the case of Mounir Hammouche, arrested by members of the intelligence services (DRS) on 23 December 2006, detained incommunicado and deceased due to torture a few days later.

Alkarama had already seized on 18 January 2007 this same case to the UN Special Rapporteurs on extra-judicial executions; on torture; and on the promotion and prote

15 Jan 2009
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Saudi Arabia: The UN Working Group qualifies Mr Al Chahri’s detention as arbitrary

Alkarama has just been officially informed of Opinion N° 13/2008 rendered during the last session of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention regarding the detention of Ali Al Chahri who was arrested on 23 August 2006.
13 Jan 2009
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Egypt : The Working Group finds the detention of the Muslim Brotherhood leaders arrested between December 2006 and January 2007 arbitrary

Alkarama has just been officially informed of Opinion No° 27/2008 rendered during the last session of the UN Working Group of Arbitrary Detention concerning the detention of 26 leaders of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood.

They underwent legal proceedings before a military tribunal on the personal instructions of President Hosni Moubarak after having been acquitted by the competent civil jurisdiction.

12 Jan 2009
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Ghazza : Call for independent enquiry into Israel's violation of humanitarian law

 Alkarama for Human Rights has been following events in the Ghazza strip closely from the beginning of the current crisis to try to establish a factual assessment, via our sources, of what is happening on the ground. We are deeply saddened at the ongoing violence in the occupied territory.
09 Jan 2009
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Algeria : Confirmation of Adel Saker’s enforced disappearance

Alkarama submitted on 6 January 2009 a letter to the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances and to the Special Rapporteur on Torture to confirm Mr Adel Saker's arrest by agents of the state, and to ask them to urgently contact the Algerian authorities.

Alkarama had contacted these two UN organs on 30 June 2008, a few weeks after Mr Saker was summoned on 26 May 2008 to appear at the headquarters of the Security Services of the District of Tamalous (Wilaya (canton) of Skikda), to which he responded.

08 Jan 2009
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Algeria : 175 cases of enforced disappearances in the Jijel region between 1993 to 1997

As announced following our meeting in November 2008 with the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, Alkarama submitted a list of 175 cases of enforced disappearances which took place during the period from 1993 to 1996 in the Jijel region (300 km to the east of Algiers) to the Working Group.

These cases were documented by the Association for the families of the disappeared of the Jijel region, represented by Mr Moussa Bourefis, hims

02 Jan 2009
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Saudi Arabia: Dr Said b. Mubarek b. Zair detained incommunicado since 18 months ago

Alkarama submitted an urgent appeal to the Special Rapporteur on Torture on 22 December 2008 to ask him to intervene in the case of Dr Saud b. Mubarek b. Zair, a campaigner for constitutional reforms, detained incommunicado since his arrest on 6 June 2007 (see press release).

Dr Said b.

29 Dec 2008
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Libya: the UN Human Rights Committee called upon to intervene in the case of Abdenacer Younis Al Rabassi, arbitrarily detained since 2003

On 17 December 2008, Alkarama submitted an individual complaint to the United Nations Human Rights Committee regarding Mr Abdenacer Younis Al Rabassi, victim to grave violations of his fundamental rights.

Abdenacer Younis Al Rabassi, aged 38 years old at the time of his arrest, holds a degree in social sciences from the Jenzour Institute of Tripoli, and was employed at the social security services of Beni Walid until the day of his arrest on 3 January 2003.

22 Dec 2008
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Iraq: Muntadhar Al Zaidi, tortured after having thrown his shoes at President George W. Bush

Mr Muntadhar Al ZaidiAlkarama sought the urgent intervention of the Special Rapporteur on Torture with the Iraqi authorities on 19 December 2008 regarding the situation of the Iraqi journalist, Mr Muntadhar Al Zaidi, arrested by the Security Services during the press conference given by the American president, George W.
20 Dec 2008
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