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On 16 June 2015, the Cairo Criminal Court confirmed the death sentences of Mohamed Morsi and several other Muslim Brotherhood leaders that had been handed in May 2015 and subsequently reviewed by the Grand Mufti of Egypt. On the same day, Morsi and 35 other defendants were also sentenced to life in prison under charges of espionage.

On 17 June 2015, Alkarama sent an urgent appeal to the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) regarding the cases of 54-year-old veterinarian, Dr Salah Attia Mohamed Fiki, and his son, a 20-year-old medicine student, Osama Salah Attia Mohamed Fiki – still a child under Egyptian law – both disappeared since their unlawful arrest by the Egyptian Security Forces on 23 April 2015.

On 11 June 2015, Alkarama sent a communication to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) and other Special Procedures of the Human Rights Council (HRC) concerning the case of Suliman Awad Zubi, a retired Libyan judge and member of the General National Congress (

In February 2015, the family of Achour Berkaoui, who went missing after his abduction by members of the Algerian security services in the centre of Algiers in November 1994, mandated Alkarama to submit a complaint to the United Nations Human Rights Committee (HRCtee), concerning the enforced disappearance of their relative so the direct involvement of the Algerian authorities be officially recognised and in the hope to obtain redress as provided by international law.

On 12 June 2015, Raif Badawi's 1,000 lashes corporal punishment was not carried out, officially for medical reasons, but it could resume at any moment every Friday. The blogger and human rights defender is still arbitrarily detained, a situation that could last for up to 10 years, since his prison sentence was also confirmed by the Supreme Court of Riyadh on 7 June 2015.

On 27 May 2015, the same day that he was charged with "criticising or insulting the King" for taking part in a peaceful demonstration against Charlie Hebdo's front-page cartoon and subsequently sentenced to five months imprisonment, the social rights activist Bassem Al Rawabedah was released.

On 2 June 2015, the Iraqi High Commission for Human Rights (IHCHR) – the Iraqi National Human Rights Institution (NHRI), created in April 2012 – was awarded the "B" status by the International Coordinating Committee of NHRIs (ICC) to mark the Iraqi NHRI's non-full compliance with the

On 23 May 2015, Alkarama sent an urgent appeal to the UN Committee Against Torture (CAT) asking it to urgently intervene with the Morocco authorities so they take interim measures to stop the extradition to Saudi Arabia of Abdul Rahman Alhaj Ali – a Syrian asylum seeker who had fled persecutions in his country in 2014 to take refuge in Morocco with his wife and his children – based on a 2007 arrest warrant which had already been executed and is no longer justified.

On 20 May 2015, Alkarama and Al Wissam Humanitarian Assembly sent an urgent appeal to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on torture (SRT) regarding the case of Mohammed Abbas Kadhim Al Sudani, a 29-year old married worker and an agent in the intelligence services of the Mosul federal police.

On 20 May 2015, Mohamed Al Fallahgi, a 58-year-old former Member of Parliament elected in 2012 died in detention, despite Alkarama's urgent appeal to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health (SRH) and the Special Rapporteur against Torture (

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