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On 21 May 2012, a person calling themselves an official of the psychiatric hospital of Ar-Razi in Salé called his father to inform him that his son was being held in the establishment. The same day, his father went to find him.

On 12 May 2012, Shadi Al Mawlawi, a Lebanese national known to support the Syrian opposition as well as Syrian refugees in Lebanon, was arrested in Tripoli. The 25-year-old merchant of office furniture now faces a military trial based on terrorism charges.
On Monday 21 May, the second cycle of the UPR – Universal Periodic Review – will begin at the Human Rights Council in Geneva, with the 13th session of the Human Rights Council Working Group on the UPR.
Alkarama seized the Special Procedures of the United Nations of the case of Sofiane Alazami today, who was abducted on the night of 5-6 May 2012 while he was on his way to Casablanca to look for work.
For the first time since 1997, the Committee against Torture will review a State outside of its normal reporting obligations, with Syria scheduled to be reviewed by the UN Committee against Torture this week. Syria was last examined two years ago in 2010 and would under normal circumstances have been again reviewed in 2014, according to the four-year periodicity of the review process.
Alkarama seized the Special Rapporteur on Torture and the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention of the case of Mr. Rifat Al Khwildy, a victim of arbitrary detention and torture for nine months.

A 27-year-old journalist, Mr. Al Khwildy participated in the Revolutionary Movement of 17 February 2011. Having learned that his name appeared on a list of people that were opposed to the revolution and that he was now the object of an investigation, he turned himself into the Military Council in Tripoli on 4 September 2011.

Moaz Al Khatib, a well-known and widely respected Syrian Islamic scholar, was arrested by the Syrian Military Intelligence in Damascus on 27 April 2012.
Mohamed Belamrania was arrested on 13 July 1995 by soldiers and was savagely tortured. His body was found among dozens of other mutilated corpses next to the road, riddled with bullets.

To date, his family has not received justice from the Algerian authorities and has been forced to address the issue to international mechanisms. Alkarama lodged a complaint on 9 May 2012 to the Human Rights Committee.

On 1 May 2012, Mr Abdulhakim Al Fadhli, a well-known activist for the rights of Bidun (stateless) in Kuwait, was arrested for the third time this year and who is now charged with calling for and participating in demonstrations. Alkarama strongly condemns the persecution of Mr Al Fadhli which clearly violates his right to freedom of expression and of peaceful assembly and is solely based on his commitment to the cause for equal rights of the Bidun in Kuwait.

After criticising the integrity of officials working for the Palestinian Authority, the Palestinian Human Rights Foundation (Rased) and its members experienced growing harassment, which climaxed in the ordered closure of Rased's offices in Ramallah, Palestine, on 12 April 2012.
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