On 4 November 2014 Alkarama sent a communication to the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association as well as the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders concerning the case of Said Ali Said Jadad, an Omani human rights defender victim of reprisal by the Omani security services.

On 31 October 2014, Alkarama sent a communication to the United Nations Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) concerning the case of four persons disappeared since their arrest by the Syrian Military Intelligence on 24 November 2012.

On 28 October 2014, Alkarama sent a communication to the United Nations Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) to raise the case of Qamar Awad, disappeared since her arrest by a patrol of the Syrian Air Intelligence Forces on 2 October 2012.

On 22 October 2014, Alkarama sent a communication to the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) regarding the abduction of three Egyptian students.

On 16 October 2014, Alkarama and Al Wissam Humanitarian Assembly sent a communication to the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) to bring its attention to the case of Mohamad and Nouhad al Mashhadani, two brothers who disappeared since their arrest by members of the security forces in 2005.

On 17 October 2014, Alkarama sent a communication to the Special Rapporteur on Torture regarding the case of Karim Rhimi, a 22 year old student arrested on 19 September 2014 and severely tortured by the anti-terrorist squad.

On 20 October 2014, the United Nations Human Rights Committee (HRC) reviewed Israel's fourth periodic report at its 122th session held in Palais Wilson, Geneva.

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• AllAfrica (Africa, EN), 04.05.2015, Africa: World Press Freedom Day - Alkarama Stands With All Journalists and Bloggers Whose Lives Are At Risk, by Alkarama
• Swissinfo (Switzerland, AR), 08.04.2015,

On 17 October 2014, Alkarama sent an urgent appeal to the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) to bring to their attention the case of Mohamed Abdulhamid Ali, a 32 years old Egyptian citizen disappeared since his abduction by the National Security Forces on 24 September 2014.

Beirut, 20 October 2014