In its contribution to the Sub-Committee of Accreditation (SCA) of the International Coordinating Committee of National Institutions for the Promotions and Protection of Human Rights (ICC) – in view of the ICC's review of the Moroccan national human rights institution, the National Human Rights Council (CNDH), due in November 2015 – Alkarama has recommended the down

On 29 June 2015, Alkarama sent a request for Opinion to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) regarding the case of Salim Alaradi, a Libyan-Canadian businessman, father of five, who was arrested by Emirati Security Service officers while on vacation with his family in Dubai. After his arrest, on 28 August 2014, Alaradi was transferred to an unknown location, where he was detained incommunicado and severely tortured for 130 days.

On 6 May 2015, during its 54th session, the United Nations Committee against Torture (CAT) – a body of 10 independent experts that monitors the implementation of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (

On 16 July 2015, Alkarama submitted a report to the Sub-Committee on Accreditation (SCA) of the International Coordinating Committee of National Institutions for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights (ICC-NHRI) on the Jordanian National Centre for Human Rights (

On 27 July 2015, Alkarama provided the United Nations Committee against Torture (CAT) – a body of 10 independent experts that monitors implementation of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (UNCAT) by its State parties – with a

On 7 August 2015, Alkarama sent an urgent appeal to the United Nations Working Group on Enforced Disappearances (WGEID) regarding the disappearances of Mohamed Taha Ahmed Ouahdan, Mohammad Mehani Hassan Moussa and Mohamed Saad Aleoua Al Sayed, arrested between 28 May 2015 and 19 June 2015.

On 13 August 2015, Alkarama brought again to the attention of the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) the case of Rami Shaher Abdel Jalil Al Mrayat, a Jordanian citizen arbitrarily detained in the United Arab Emirates since 19 November 2011.

On 15 July 2015, Alkarama sent a communication to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) concerning the case of a 23-year-old salesman arrested in 2004 and sentenced to 15 years in prison on the sole basis of confessions obtained under torture and following an unfair trial. Hamo Hassani is still currently held it the prison of Tiflet, 50 km east of Rabat.

Brutal arrest and incommunicado detention of Hamo Hassani

On 23 July 2015, Alkarama submitted a communication to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence (SR Truth) concerning the case of Abderrahmane Ould Ahmed, an activist still threatened and persecuted by the Mauritanian authorities for his fight against the impunity of the perpetrators of the Inal massacre of black Mauritanians in the early 1990s.

The background

On 5 August, Alkarama sent an urgent appeal to the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) regarding the disappearances of Mahmoud Saleh Mohammed Ali and Hassan Saleh Ahmed Mohammed respectively arrested by Egyptian security and police forces on 7 June and 5 July 2015.