Syria: Student Rama Al Assas disappeared since last 27 August

Rama Al Assas, Syria26-year-old Syrian student Rama Al Assas was abducted on 27 August 2012 from her home in Damascus. Since then, her whereabouts remain unknown as the Syrian authorities refuse to give any information on her fate. Alkarama is concerned about her physical and mental integrity as torture and ill-treatment is highly likely as long as she remains disappeared.

17 Oct 2012
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Egypt: Law to "Protect revolutionary gains" . The government insists on passing an emergency law which grants total power to security agencies.

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The Alkarama Foundation expresses its surprise and condemnation at the insistence of the Egyptian Government to pass an emergency law that would limits fundamental freedoms, as was the case in the emergency law proposed by the Justice Minister Ahmad Maki.
16 Oct 2012
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Algeria: 33 year-old Man Beaten to Death by the Police - "Honest Mistake" or a Serious Police Crime?

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A thirty-three year old Algerian man is dead due to police brutality...This incident would have gone unnoticed had it been committed inside police station walls, in a prison, and out of the public eye.
15 Oct 2012
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Saudi Arabia suffers from amnesia

Mr Suleiman Alwan, a Saudi prisoner, refused to attend court yesterday, after he had spent more than 8 years behind bars without legal proceedings.
15 Oct 2012
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Morocco: Alkarama highlights need to follow through positive developments with legislative changes

In November 2011, the UN Committee against Torture reviewed Morocco, and requested it provide information about several urgent issues that needed to be addressed within one year.
01 Oct 2012
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Jordan: Imminent risk of torture of Ashraf Abdulsalam following deportation

Deported to Jordan in September, 28-year-old Ashraf Abdulsalam is currently seriously at risk of being subjected to torture, as was already the case in 2010.
27 Sep 2012
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Morocco: Director of Tiflet prison threatens detainees once Special Rapporteur on Torture leaves

"Your protector Mendez has gone now...," threatened the governor of Tiflet Prison... Less than a week after the end of the UN Special Rapporteur's - Juan E. Mendez - official visit to Morocco, a high ranking prison official threatened inmates at Tiflet Prison. While Mr Mendez's visit appeared to be a promising sign that Morocco is willing to cooperate with the UN, Alkarama is alarmed by these words uttered by such a high-ranking official.
Mr Juan E. Mendez, UN Special Rapporteur on torture, was in Morocco from 14 to the 22 September 2012.
27 Sep 2012
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Saudi Arabia: Young Saudi sentenced to life imprisonment is denied access to medical care and subjected to physical and psychological tortures

Suleiman Al Ayed, 29 year-old Saudi national, has been imprisoned in Al-Hayer prison, in Riyadh, for eight years. For five years, he was detained without any legal proceedings, held in solitary confinement in the dark and severely tortured. Today, Mr Al Ayed's psychological and physical condition is seriously alarming, yet the Saudi authorities have continuously refused to give him access to medical care.
On 14 October 2003, Suleiman Al Ayed was arrested in Yemen before being deported to Saudi Arabia seven months later on 19 May 2004.
26 Sep 2012
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ALKARAMA AWARD 2012

Two human rights activists from the Gulf to receive Alkarama Award

Geneva – 26 September 2012 - "Imprisonment has never changed someone's ideas... Oppression has never postponed the coming of tomorrow" said last year's Alkarama Award laureate, Aida Saif Al Dawla of Egypt, in a video announcing the Alkarama Foundation's choice of two leading human rights figures from the Gulf region as the Laureates for the 2012 Alkarama Award.

25 Sep 2012
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Iraq: Execution of a Tunisian detainee in Al Rusafa Prison

Iraqi authorities should investigate the circumstances surrounding the death of Tunisian detainee Abdullah Al Matoui, assassinated in Al Rusafa Prison, Baghdad.

On 2 August 2012, Abdullah Habib Abdullah Al Matoui, a Tunisian citizen detained in Iraqi prison since 2005 was attacked and killed inside Al Rusafa prison in Baghdad.

17 Sep 2012
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