Libya: Student disappeared by Interior Security services

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On 20 September 2010 at 12 :15am Ahmed Abdessalam Hassane Almanafi was kidnapped by Interior Security agents from his home in Hayy Al-Hadi'iq, Benghazi. Twenty Interior Security agents in several vehicles arrived at the scene before the kidnapping. 
21 Oct 2010
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Syria: Kurdish Syrian held incommunicado for one year

On 8 January 2009, plain clothed State Political Security agents arrested Kadar Saado at his office in Qamishli. He was held for two weeks at their headquarters before being taken to Al-Fayhaa district in Damascus and was then transferred to the capital's central prison "Adra".

Kadar Saado, a 32-year-old Syrian Kurd and IT expert is believed to have been arrested due to his relationship with Munzer Oscan, who was abducted in 2008 and held incommunicado for almost a year.

20 Oct 2010
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Syria: Syrian Human Rights Defender Reappears in Adra Prison 40 Days after Arrest

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On 23 August 2010, on his way back to Germany from Syrian with his wife and three of his children, Ismail Abdi, a human rights defender of both Syrian and German nationalities, was taken in for questioning at passport control desks by border police and State Security agents.
19 Oct 2010
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Egypt: Student held in secret detention more than a year

Mohamed Al Aryan Aouda, a 19 year old Egyptian student from the Directorate of Ismailia, was arrested from his home by members of the Egyptian State Security Intelligence (SSI) on 16 August 2009 and his family has been unable to ascertain the location of his current place of detention or his fate since then.

Alkarama today submitted the case of Mr Mohamed Aouda to the Special Rapporteur on Torture and the Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances.

18 Oct 2010
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Egypt: Student Protest Trial Postponed in Zagazig

The Zagazig magistrate's court has postponed the trial of seven Al-Azhar University students to 28 October 2010, in response to the defense's request to see the case file.

The group are all members of the Muslim Brotherhood, a banned opposition group in Egypt. Early this month they were involved in a peaceful sit-in to protest the physical molestation and beating of a female student by Al-Azhar University security guards in Zagazig. She would later suffer from internal bleeding.

The seven students have since been arrested, and are currently in police custody in Zagazig.

14 Oct 2010
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Syrian Haithem Al-Maleh to Receive 2010 Alkarama Award for Human Rights Defenders

Announcement marks first anniversary of his detention

12 October, 2010 - Geneva, Switzerland - Haithem Al-Maleh (هيثم المالح), prominent Syrian human rights defender and lawyer, will be the recipient of the Alkarama Award 2010 for Human Rights Defenders. The award will be presented on 10 December 2010 at the annual Alkarama Award for Human Rights Defenders, which will take place at the International Conference Centre (www.cicg.ch) in Geneva, Switzerland.

12 Oct 2010
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Egypt: Five Men Tortured in Secret Detention at Nasr City Intelligence Headquarters

Mohamed Alsaid Abdelghany, Ahmed Maghawry, Ramy Maghawry, Mohamed Abdelhamid, and Osama Awadeen were arrested on 15 July 2010 at their respective homes by agents of State Security Intelligence (SSI). They were taken to the SSI's Al-Mansoura headquarters and then eventually transferred to the SSI headquarters in Nasr City, where they were secretly detained and tortured.
12 Oct 2010
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Morocco: Prisoners Transferred en masse to Kenitra Central Prison

Alkarama has been informed that early on Saturday 9 October 2010 Moroccan authorities forcibly transferred between 89 and 140 detainees (according to sources) from prisons in Tangiers, Fes, Meknes, Souk Larbaa, Ben Slimane, Okacha prison complex in Casablanca, and El Jedida to a new building in Kenitra Central Prison.

The detainees were woken up in the early hours of Saturday 9 October 2010, shackled and blindfolded, before being transported to Kenitra Central Prison.

12 Oct 2010
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Syria: Three Yekiti party members held by State Security

Muhammad Ahmad Mustafa, Hasan Ibrahim Salih, and Maaruf Mulla Ahmad were arrested on 26 December 2009 following a summons by the State Security office in Qamishli.
08 Oct 2010
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Lebanon: Israeli military unit arrest and torture Lebanese shepherd

Today Alkarama, a Geneva-based human rights organisation, and the Beirut-based Khiam Rehabilitation Centre for Victims of Torture sent a communication to the Special Rapporteur on Torture requesting his intervention with the Israeli occupation authorities to launch an immediate investigation into the torture of Imad Atawi in June.

06 Oct 2010
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