Saudi Arabia: The Working Group on Arbitrary Detention confirms the arbitrary nature of the detention of Mr. Abdul Hakim Gellani

Mr. Abdul Hakim Gellani, a British citizen, was arrested 19 November 2005 during a business trip in Saudi Arabia. Detained from December 2005, he was finally released in July 2006 after seven months of secret detention. After obtaining a visa to return to the United Kingdom where his family lives and giving an interview to Al Jazeera, he was again arrested on 8 August 2007 and detained in secret for two months.
05 Jul 2011
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Yemen: Alkarama provides information about the regime's crimes to the UN Human Rights Mission

Through its office in Yemen Alkarama has in cooperation with local human rights and civil society organizations presented a legal dossier to the Mission of the High Commissioner for Human Rights of the United Nations, which has been appointed to evaluate the human rights situation in Yemen, where the UN Mission is cu
05 Jul 2011
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Iraq-USA: Arbitrary detention of 48 "Arab prisoners" in Iraq after unfair trials

Since the invasion of Iraq by the Coalition Forces led by the United States in March 2003, many nationals of Arab countries have been the victims of arbitrary arrest, savage torture, and secret detention and have been condemned to heavy sentences following unfair trials.

Alkarama sent a communication to the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and to the Special Rapporteur on Torture to request that they intervene with the Iraqi authorities in 48 cases and seek that the victims' right to remedy is recognized and that they are compensated for their torture and ill treatment.

05 Jul 2011
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Saudi Arabia: Arbitrary detention of Mr. Khaled Al-Twijri for more than two years

Mr. Khaled Al-Twijri, a Saudi Arabian national, was travelling to Jordan in July 2008 when he was arrested and extradited to Saudi Arabia on 25 January 2009. His family was informed neither of his arrest nor of his extradition.

Mr. Khaled Abdulrahman Al-Twijri normally lives in the province of Quassim in Saudi Arabia. Following a trip to Jordan in July 2008, the family of Mr. Al-Twijri had not received news of him for some months. Despite multiple attempts to get the Jordanian government to recognize the arrest or detention, they have never done so.

04 Jul 2011
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Israel: Arbitrary arrest and detention of human rights defender Fuad Al Khuffash

Mr Fuad Al Khuffash (فؤاد الخفش), aged 36 years and living in Nablus, West Bank, is a human rights defender. He is a well known human rights defender in Palestine that especially focuses on the rights of Palestinians prisoners in Israel.
04 Jul 2011
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Israel: ongoing extra-judicial execution of peaceful demonstrators and activists

On 15 May 2011, peaceful popular protests were carried out along the Israeli borders with many Arab states by Palestinian refugees and their supporters calling for them to be allowed back to the lands their families once owned.
01 Jul 2011
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Iraq: Risk of execution of five foreign nationals sentenced to death

Yousri Al-Tariqi, Tunisian, Badr Ashour Ali, Moroccan, Mohamed Fraj Allah, Libyan, Adel Ali, Libyan, and Nasser Mojib, Saudi Arabian, are detained at Soussa prison in Suleimaniyah (in Iraqi Kurdistan) and had been sentenced to death between 2006 and 2010. They may be executed soon.

1. Mr. Yousri Fakher Mohamed AL-TARIQI, a Tunisian national, was arrested 5 May 2006 in the provice of Salaheddine in northern Iraq by members of the Iraqi security forces.

01 Jul 2011
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Morocco: Release of Mr. Karim Khadir

Mr. Karim Khader, who has dual British-Moroccan citizenship and lives in London, was arrested 24 June 2011 after arriving at Tanger port. He was freed 30 June 2011.

Recollection of the facts:

Mr. Karim Khader (كريم خادر) is 30 years old and of dual British-Moroccan citizenship; he is an air-conditioning engineer and normally lives in London in the United Kingdom. He was arrested 24 June 2011 at 5:30 am at the port of Tanger where he was disembarking from a ship with his father-in-law.

01 Jul 2011
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Libya: Summary executions at Bani Walid

Seven people arrested by soldiers of the Libya army were summarily executed 28 May 2011 at Bani Walid. These victims are identified as Libyan civilians who were fleeing Libya and taking refuge in a collective home of Egyptian workers who were also executed during the incident. The exact number and identities of all of the victims remains unknown.

The Libyan Truth and Justice Committee, a group on the ground with which Alkarama has regularly collaborated, brought this information to our attention.

27 Jun 2011
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Morocco: Journalist Rachid Niny sentenced to one year in prison

Mr. Rachid Niny, editor in chief of one of the largest daily Moroccan Arabic newspapers called "Al Massae," was brought 28 April 2011 to the headquarters of the national judicial police brigade in Casablanca and placed in custody.
24 Jun 2011
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