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The United Nations Human Rights Committee recently condemned Libya following serious human rights violations committed against one of its nationals. According to the decision issued by the Committee, the Libyan authorities are required to conduct a thorough and effective investigation to shed light on the enforced disappearances of Abdussalam Il Khwildy as well as the torture inflicted on him while in detention. Investigations should be carried out in view of to punishing the perpetrators of these crimes and granting appropriate compensation to the victim.
The latest report of the UN Commission of Inquiry, released on 5 February 2013, found that the Syrian government forces and affiliated militia as well as armed opposition groups are both responsible for war crimes committed over the course of the two-year-old conflict.
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The Alkarama Foundation warmly invites you to attend the press conference launching its report analysing the evolution of the human rights situation in Egypt since the lifting of the Emergency Law on 31 May 2012.

The press conference will take place on Thursday 21 Febru

After his arrival in Iraq for work, Mr Shawki Ahmed Omar, now 52, Jordanian national with US citizenship, was arrested in October 2004 with his then pregnant wife. He was not only beaten, but also repeatedly tortured by electric shocks and simulations of drowning. To protest against his ongoing arbitrary detention in Karakh Prison and the torture he was recently subjected to, he began a hunger strike on 4 February 2013. Yesterday, 12 February 2013, his family members organized sit-ins in front of the Iraqi Embassies in London and Amman in his support.

Mohamad Hassan Tlass, a former officer of the Syrian Air Force Intelligence Services, was arrested by Lebanese security services on 6 December 2012. He reportedly defected from the Syrian army in August 2011 and is today facing imminent extradition to Syria following a decision issued on 4 February 2013 by the Beirut Military Court. If he is forcible returned, he risks being tortured and executed for desertion.
Update - Today, the nine online activists began a hungerstrike to protest against their arbitrary detention. 
 
The Omani authorities should release immediately nine activists currently detained in Samael Central Prison solely for having expressed their opinion.
 On 16 January 2013, the Appeal Court of Muscat upheld verdicts against nine online activists who will be serving prison sentences up to one year and a half on charges including "lèse-majesté", "violation of the Omani Information technol
Following the events of Nahr Al Bared in 2007, several hundred persons were arrested on suspicion of belonging to, or having ties with, the Islamist group Fatah Al Islam. Six years after the incident, the Lebanese authorities have now announced the beginning of their trial in form of preliminary hearings for tomorrow, 8 February 2013. After this excessive period of pre-trial detention, during which many inmates report having been tortured, it is the Lebanese Judicial Council, a court of exception, who will hear their case.
Following the US invasion of Iraq, many Arabs of non-Iraqi origin were arbitrarily arrested, detained and tortured between 2003 and 2009 by the US and Iraqi authorities on suspicions of belonging to the 'armed resistance' against the 'US Occupation Forces'. Sentenced to excessive prison terms or the death penalty in expedient trials, this group of non-Iraqi detainees became known as the 'Arab Prisoners'.
Saudi authorities should release Amer Al-Anzi immediately and provide him with appropriate compensation for his arbitrary detention.

Amer Al-Anzi, 34 year-old Qatari national, currently detained at Dammam Prison, the capital of the Province of Eastern Saudi Arabia, has spent more than 7 years in prison without charge or trial.

Rami Al-Mrayat, a 25 year-old Jordanian citizen and former employee of the Gulf aircraft maintenance company, was arrested by the Emirati security services on 19 November 2011 at Abu Dhabi International Airport while he was about to return to his country. Tortured and held in secret detention for almost 5 months, he was transferred to Al-Wathba prison in Abu Dhabi on 4 April 2012.
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