Iraq/Syria: Imminent extradition of Mr Abdullah Moutie from Iraq to Syria despite high risk of torture

Mr Abdullah Ahmed Moutie, aged 31 years and detained in Iraq since 2004, faces imminent extradition to Syria, where he is at great risk of torture. His brother, Mr Obeid Moutie, died under torture in a detention centre in Aleppo, Syria, about a month ago. Should Mr Abdullah Moutie be sent back to Syria, he, too, risks to be subjected to severe ill-treatment and torture.

Mr Moutie was arrested at the border between Syria and Iraq in 2004 and sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment in 2007 for illegally entering the country.

03 Jan 2012
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Iraq/Syria: Imminent extradition of Mr Abdullah Moutie from Iraq to Syria despite high risk of torture

Mr Abdullah Ahmed Moutie, aged 31 years and detained in Iraq since 2004, faces imminent extradition to Syria, where he is at great risk of torture. His brother, Mr Obeid Moutie, died under torture in a detention centre in Aleppo, Syria, about a month ago. Should Mr Abdullah Moutie be sent back to Syria, he, too, risks to be subjected to severe ill-treatment and torture.

Mr Moutie was arrested at the border between Syria and Iraq in 2004 and sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment in 2007 for illegally entering the country.

03 Jan 2012
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Yemen: Alkarama delegation visits Sanaa to prepare shadow report for UN Human Rights Committee

Mr Michael Romig, of the Alkarama Foundation concluded a visit to Yemen during which he met members of the Yemeni government, representatives of Yemeni human rights organisations, journalists, and victims of the violent repression of demonstrations that the country has been experiencing since last February.

Mr Romig expressed his gratitude to members of the Yemeni go

03 Jan 2012
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Egypt: Security forces raid offices of 6 civil society organizations in Cairo

Cairo, Geneva - 29 December 2011 - Today, the offices of 6 local and international NGOs in Egypt were raided by teams of investigators and prosecutors accompanied by uniformed military and security forces. Warrants have been issued to search and investigate a total of 17 organizations under the accusations of “receiving funding from foreign countries” and other crimes according to the heavily criticised 2002 “NGO law”.

The organizations visited today are:

29 Dec 2011
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Syria: Disappearance of Syrian doctor last seen in irregular detention centre

Mr Omar Raad, a Syrian doctor, was arrested near his home in Al Zabadani, a city close to the Lebanese border in Syria, on 14 September 2011. That day, members of the State Security had put up a checkpoint on his street and arrested him when he passed the barrier.
23 Dec 2011
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Syria: Seriously wounded father of six remains disappeared

Mr Kamel Hamda, aged 45, and father of six children, was seriously wounded on 10 November 2011, as a result of gunshots that he received before he was arrested in a Damascus suburb on his way home from work during lunch time. He came under machine gun fire in the Sayl alley, Harasta near the Sheikh Mousa mosque. He was wounded in one leg, and lay unconscious in the middle of the street for 15 minutes.
20 Dec 2011
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Mauritania: Six months since the disappearances of fourteen detainees from Nouakchott prison

On 23 May of last year, fourteen prisoners sentenced to heavy punishments for terrorist infractions were taken in the middle of the night from the civil prison of Nouakchott by agents of the armed forces. Other detainees at the prison witnessed the event. Among those disappeared were Mohamed Sebti and Mohamed Hmednah, two Mauritanians aged 26 and 27.

Two weeks after the incident on 8 June, the personal effects of the forteen detainnes-books, mattresses, and blankets-were returned to their families without further explanation by the penitentiary administration.

02 Dec 2011
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UAE: Expunge Activists' Convictions

 

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Ahmed Mansoor embracing his wife outside Al Wathba prison on November 28, 2011 © 2011 Samer Muscati/Human Rights Watch

30 Nov 2011
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UAE: Prison Sentence for Activists an attack on freedom of expression

(Abu Dhabi, November 28, 2011) – Yesterday's verdict by the United Arab Emirates' Federal Supreme Court condemning 5 activists to sentences from 2 to 3 years in prison is the result of a trial which does not conform with international norms for a fair trial. The panel of four foreign judges delivered the verdict in a ten-minute oral statement in court, sentencing Ahmed Mansoor, a prominent UAE reformer, to three years imprisonment and the rest to two years each for publicly insulting UAE authorities.
28 Nov 2011
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Algeria: Human rights activist arrested in Algiers

Update: Nassima Guettal was released on 25 November 2011 at 13:00

Nassima Guettal, a human rights activist and a founding member of the National Front for Change (FCN), was arrested this morning by the police. She had undertaken a hunger strike in Algiers in the Place 1st May.

25 Nov 2011
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