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On 14 July 2015, Alkarama and Al Wissam Humanitarian Assembly submitted an urgent action to the United Nations Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED) regarding the case of Yahya and Moussa Al Jabouri, two brothers who disappeared following their abduction by government forces in July 2014.

On 17 and 18 July 2015, members of the Syrian Centre for Media and Freedom of Expression (SCM) Hussein Gharir and Hani Al Zitani were freed from Hama Prison, after three years spent behind bars, following numerous calls by Alkarama and numerous other organisations, as well as various UN instances.

On 15 July 2015, Alkarama informed the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression (SR FRDX) of the expulsion, by the Egyptian authorities, of a 22-year-old French student, Fanny Ohier.

On 25 June 2015, Alkarama and Human Rights Guardians sent a communication to the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID), concerning the case of Ahmed Al Zaidan, a 28-year-old Syrian married worker from Al Lataminah, a village in northern Syria, disappeared since his arrest by the S

During its 29th session on 26 June 2015, the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) adopted the outcome of Kuwait's Universal Periodic Review (UPR) – a process aimed at assessing the human rights record of each UN Member State every four years – for which Alkarama had submitted a shadow report in June 2014.

On 14 July 2014, Alkarama, in cooperation with Al Wissam Humanitarian Assembly, sent an urgent action to the United Nations Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED) regarding the case of Khamis Al Ghurery, a 37-year-old Iraqi citizen who disappeared following his arrest by military officers in June 2014.

On 13 July 2015, Alkarama sent its shadow report on the situation of torture in Iraq to the United Nations Committee against Torture (CAT), in view of the country's upcoming review by the Committee during its

On 28 April 2015, following an urgent appeal sent by Alkarama on 8 January 2015, the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) issued an Opinion regarding the detention of 16-year-old Egyptian high school student,

On 30 June 2015, Alkarama sent a communication to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers (SR IJL), Gabriela Knaul, concerning the case of Judge Mohamed Anbar, unfairly removed from office in October 2014 after having suffered both harassment and persecution by the police while he was still President of the Chamber at the Court of Cassation of Rabat, the highest court of the country.

On 18 June 2015, Gabriela Knaul, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers (SRIJL), presented the main findings of her Tunisia visit report. The report aims to assess the Tunisian judicial systems and changes since the 2011 revolution.

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