Libya: The death in custody in suspicious conditions of Mr Abdelhamid Al Daquel

Alkarama submitted to the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions and the Special Rapporteur on torture the case of Mr Abdelhamid Al Daquel, who died in detention on an undetermined date. He was arrested and had been detained incommunicado since 26 January 1989.

Mr Abdelhamid AL DAQUEL was born on 22 March 1963; he was a pilot in the Libyan Air Force holding the rank of commander. He lived in the municipality of Beni El Walid.

13 Nov 2008
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Libya: Enforced disappearance and torture, followed by the death, of Mr Ismail Al Khazmi

On 6 November 2008, Alkarama for Human Rights and TRIAL (Track Impunity Always) jointly submitted an individual communication to the United Nations Human Rights Committee regarding Ismail Al Khazmi, a Libyan, who was arrested and detained arbitrarily since June 17 2006. On 1 May 2007, his family was informed of his death.

Ismail Al Khazmi, a petrochemical engineer, was aged 30 at the time of his arrest on 17 June 2006 by officers of Internal Security who arrested him at his workplace, without a warrant and without reasons being given.

07 Nov 2008
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Lebanon: Act Now on Steps to Prevent Torture

Country’s Report on Torture Is Seven Years Overdue
Lebanon should take concrete and public measures to stop the use of torture in detention facilities and submit a long-overdue report on the subject to the United Nations, a group of eight Lebanese and international human rights organizations said today.

Lebanon ratified the United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment in 2000, but it has yet to submit a report that was due seven years ago – on Novemb

05 Nov 2008
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Human rights in Iraq : an Iraqi Delegation in Geneva

Alkarama has invited personalities from Iraq to give first hand information and testimonies about the situation of human rights in the country. The delegation visted Geneva from 29-31 October 2008.

Alkarama's guests are :

01 Nov 2008
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USA: Arbitrary detention of three Sudanese nationals in Guantanamo Bay camps

Alkarama for Human Rights submitted, on 29 October 2008, a communication to the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention to inform them of the arbitrary detention of three Sudanese nationals in the U.S. military base at Guantanamo Bay. All three have meanwhile been released.

Adil Hassan Hamad Al-Muttaleb has, since 1999, worked for an Islamic charity which in particular looked after Afghan refugees in Pakistan.

31 Oct 2008
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Libya: Mr. Mjber Abdaslam, arbitrarily detained for over 10 months

Alkarama submitted today a communication to the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention asking it to intervene in the case of Mr. Mohamed Salem Mjber Abdaslam, arrested on 28 December 2007, disappeared for 8 months and detained arbitrarily.

Mr. Mohamed Salem Mjber ABDASLAM, Libyan citizen, aged 34 years and residing in Sweden, travelled on 24 December 2007 in Libya to visit his parents residing in Zliten, a city located about 150 kilometers east of Tripoli.

23 Oct 2008
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Syria: Arbitrary detentions and killings in Sednaya prison

Alkarama today submitted to the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention the cases of Messrs Mustapha Kamel Houriya aged 52, Ahmed Abdelkader Kerroum and Youcef Amar Dehnine, both aged 41 years.

The three men from Idlib in northern Syria were arrested on 14 July 2007 in Damascus, where they had gone after being summoned by the military, and are currently being detained without charge in Sednaya prison, which was witness on 5 July 2008 to serious events in which prisoners were killed by the security services.

22 Oct 2008
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Lebanon: Convictions as a result of "confessions" extracted under torture

Alkarama has received additional information about nine people about whom it had addressed, in September 2007, a communication to the Special Rapporteur on torture. Alkarama thus informed the Special Rapporteur on 16 October 2008 that these persons were tried by a military court on the basis of confessions obtained under torture.

The people listed below were arrested in March-April 2006 and were victims of torture and inhuman and degrading treatment.

21 Oct 2008
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Lebanon: Torture, ill-treatment and prosecution of civilians before military courts

Alkarama submitted 13 cases of people being tortured in Lebanon to the Special Rapporteur on Torture, on 15 October 2008.
17 Oct 2008
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