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On 10 July 2013, Alkarama brought to the attention of the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention the case of deposed president Mohamed Morsi and his advisors and requested an opinion from the working group on this matter.
Mr Morsi and his advisors have been arrested and detained without being granted due process guarantees since the military takeover on 3 July 2013.
AlkWeb_HussamYOUSSEF_Picture1Hussam Youssef, a 21-year-old Syrian student who disappeared over a year ago, may now stand trial before a Syrian Military Field Court.
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Reporters Without Borders and the Swiss-based human rights NGO Alkarama deplore the two-week jail sentence that a Beirut military court passed on 9 December on the journalist Rami Aysha on a charge of buying firearms, replacing the six-month sentence he received when tried in absentia last mont
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Four Syrian activists abducted in the Damascus suburbs, apparently in relation to their human rights and humanitarian work, must be released immediately and unconditionally, 16 human rights organizations said today.

Award-winning Syrian human rights defender and writer Razan Zaitouneh, along wit

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The Bahraini authorities should immediately release Jawad Hussein, human rights defender and Chairman of the European Bahraini Organization for Human Rights, arrested following a smear campaign against him and fellow activists.

On 23 November 2013, Bahraini human rights defender Jawad Hussein went to Central Province Centre to file a complaint against state-sponsored media outlets and NGOs who had launched a defamation campaign against him and several Bahraini human rights activists.

Set Up a Fact-Finding Committee as a First Step

Thirteen Egyptian and international human rights organizations called on the Egyptian authorities today, on international Human Rights Day, to acknowledge, and seriously and thoroughly investigate the killing of up to 1,000 people by security forces dispersing Muslim Brotherhood sit-ins on August 14, 2013.

Rami_AyshaReporters Without Borders and the Swiss-based human rights NGO Alkarama condemn the six-month jail sentence that Lebanese journalist Rami Aysha received in absentia from a Beirut military court last week on a charge of purchasing firearms.
Arrested on 30 August 2012 while researching a story on arms trafficking in Beirut's southern suburbs, Aysha was released a month later pending trial.
On 18 November 2013, the Alkarama Foundation and the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) jointly submitted a communication to the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances regarding to the case of Ghazala Shabo and her two children,
Mohamed and Wahida Al Shebly, who were forcibly disappeared on separate occasions throughout the past year.

Reporters Without Borders and the Swiss-based human rights NGO Alkarama deplore the two-week jail sentence that a Beirut military court passed on 9 December on the journalist Rami Aysha on a charge of buying firearms, replacing the six-month sentence he received when tried in absentia last month.

Aysha, who attended the 9 December hearing, left the court a free man because he was deemed to have already served the sentence when detained for a month after his arrest in August 2012.

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