UAE: Enforced Disappearance and Torture

Reveal Activist's Whereabouts; Investigate Torture Allegations

United Arab Emirates (UAE) authorities should immediately bring a victim of enforced disappearance, Ahmed al-Suweidi, before judicial authorities and open a thorough and impartial investigation into credible allegations of torture at State Security facilities. Human Rights Watch was joined in its statement by Alkarama (Dignity), the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI), the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR), and Index on Censorship.

14 Sep 2012
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Morocco: Visit of the Special Rapporteur on Torture from 14-22 September 2012

The Special Rapporteur of the United Nations on Torture, Mr. Juan E. Méndez, will visit Morocco from 14-22 September 2012. Alkarama was pleased to see Morocco invite the UN expert to visit the country, in particular to visit places of detention and to hold a dialogue with the authorities regarding these locations.
14 Sep 2012
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Yemen: Alkarama and HOOD condemn the death of a Yemeni detainee in Guantanamo

American military authorities declared the death of a 32 year old detainee, Adnan Farhan Abdel Latif al-Sharaabi, in a statement issued on Tuesday 11 September 2012.
12 Sep 2012
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Yemen: Alkarama and HOOD organise a meeting with the families of the victims of the American drone attack of 2 December 2012

Alkarama's Yemen office, in cooperation with the National Organisation for Defending Rights and Freedoms "HOOD", organised today, Wednesday 5 September 2012, a meeting to hear the testimonies of the victims of the American drone attack on a civilian car in the Radaa area in the province of Bayda (170 Kilometres south east of the capital Sana) which took place last Sunday 2 September 2012. The raid killed 11 civilians including two children and two women.
The relatives of the victims spoke during the meeting about the magnitude of the tragedy caused by the American raid.
06 Sep 2012
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Algeria: 70 year old Zoubir Kaf is missing since July 2011, victim of enforced disappearance

Mr Zoubir Kaf, a 70 year old father of four left his family home in Laghouat on the 17th of July 2011 at 6.30am and has not been seen since.
 
That day he was meant to be meeting some friends, several of whom tried to reach him at his family home when they noticed that he did not turn up.
23 Aug 2012
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Yemen: Alkarama and HOOD appeal to the Yemeni government to save its detained citizens in Iraq and Pakistan

Saleh BaydaniUpdate - Today, Alkarama submitted to the Special Rapporteur on summary executions the case of Saleh Musa Ahmad Baydani , young Yemeni citizen sentenced to death in Iraq after unfair trial. 

 

22 Aug 2012
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Lebanon: Human Rights Organizations urge the Lebanese authorities to stop referring civilians to the Military Court

Following the preliminary investigations with former Minister Michel Samaha, suspected of plotting terrorist attacks in Lebanon, carried out this past week, his case was referred to the Military Tribunal.
17 Aug 2012
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Egypt: Fourteen people sentenced to death following an unfair trial

The accused avoided a military court, only to be brought before a harsher exceptional court

The State Security Supreme Emergency Court in Ismailia, headed by Judge Hasan Mahmoud Farid, sentenced 14 individuals accused of being members of the "Tawhid and Jihad" group to death and referred them to the mufti on Tuesday 14 August. They were accused of attacking a police station in al-Arish and killing police and military officers during June and July of last year.

15 Aug 2012
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Saudi Arabia: An appeal to King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz to protect the prisoners of al-Hayer, and a violent intervention by the Emergency Forces

Mr Ali bin Abdullah bin Ali al-Zamel, a brother of a prisoner in al-Hayer, sent an appeal letter to King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz and members of the Saudi ruling class, to the High Commissioner for Human Rights and to local human rights organisations, asking them all to intervene in order to protect the prisoners of al-Hayer who have been in a sit-in for many weeks, and to respond to their legitimate demands which Alkarama had espoused, particularly releasing prisoners of arbitrary detentions which fill the Kingdom's prisons.
13 Aug 2012
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Lebanon: The authorities should guarantee independence for the investigation on the case of two Sunni clerics killed by the army

On 20 May, Ahmad Abdulwahed, a Sunni religious figure known for his political support of the Syrian opposition, and Mohammad al Mereb were shot dead by soldiers from the Lebanese Military at a check point at the entrance to Kwaikhat, northern Lebanon. This incident rekindled tensions in the north which were already shaken up by the recent violent clashes between supporters and opponents of the Syrian regime.
08 Aug 2012
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