Libya: Salem Abdaslam reappears after more than nine months of having been disappeared

Alkarama for Human Rights has just learned that the Libyan authorities have informed the family of Mr Abdaslam of his current detention at the Ain Zara prison near Tripoli.
10 Oct 2008
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Libya: Release of Dr. Idriss Aboufaied for health reasons

Alkarama for Human Rights, TRIAL (Track Impunity Always), 9 October 2008
09 Oct 2008
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Saudi Arabia: The United Nations Working Group condemns Mr Amer Al Qahtani’s arbitrary detention

Alkarama has just been informed of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention’s opinion 11/2008 , issued on 9 May 2008, regarding Mr Amer Al Qahtani, imprisoned for more than 10 years. Alkarama had submitted two communications concerning him, the first dated 18 May 2006.

Mr Amer b. Said b. Mohamed Al Thaqfan Al Qahtani, a teacher, residing in Riyadh, was aged 29 years at the time of his arrest in March 1998.

08 Oct 2008
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Lebanon: Letter of Alkarama and other NGOs to the Minister of the Interior about the situation in prisons.

A month after the decision to open an investigation into allegations of corruption and mistreatment of prisoners, revealed by the television channel "NewTV, seven Lebanese and international human rights NGOs have sent today a letter to the Minister of Interior of Lebanon, Mr.
08 Oct 2008
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The Independent : Secrets of Iraq's death chamber

Prisoners are being summarily executed in the government's high-security detention centre in Baghdad. Robert Fisk reports

Like all wars, the dark, untold stories of the Iraqi conflict drain from its shattered landscape like the filthy waters of the Tigris. And still the revelations come.

The Independent has learnt that secret executions are being carried out in the prisons run by Nouri al-Maliki's "democratic" government.

08 Oct 2008
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Time magazine - Six Years Inside Gitmo: A Journalist's Tale

Both John McCain and Barack Obama have said they would shut the U.S. military detention facility at Guantánamo Bay, where about 250 men remain behind bars — some in their eighth year of captivity. But neither presidential candidate has outlined when and how they plan to do it. One man ready to offer them some free advice on the problem of Guantánamo is Sami Al-Hajj, an al-Jazeera TV cameraman recently freed, without facing charges, after six and a half years at Guantánamo.
30 Sep 2008
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Saudi Arabia: The Working Group of the United Nations notes the arbitrary detention of Abdul Rahman Al Sudais

Alkarama for Human Rights has just been informed of the opinion issued on 8 May 2008 by the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention regarding Mr Abdul Rahman Al Sudais, arbitrarily detained since 2003. Alkarama had submitted a communication to the Working Group on 6 June 2005, asking them to intervene urgently with Saudi authorities.

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29 Sep 2008
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Saudi Arabia: Arbitrary detention of Mr Khalid Al Shammari

Alkarama submitted, on 18 September 2008, a communication to the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, asking them to intervene in the case of Mr Khalid Al Shammari, a stateless person (Bedouin) from Kuwait, arrested in Saudi Arabia and detained incommunicado since January 2007.

Mr Khalid Said Khalid al-Shammari was born on 7 September 1980 and lives with his family in Kuwait City and carries an identity card for the stateless.

22 Sep 2008
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Yemen: Release of Mr Louay Al-Mouayyad, journalist and human rights activist

Alkarama has learned of the release of Mr Louay Al-Mouayyad on 12 September 2008 at 1 am after 74 days of detention. He was not subject to any legal proceedings during his detention and was released without ever being brought before a judicial authority.

Mr AL-MOUAYYAD, member of the Organization for Rights and Democratic Freedoms, was arrested at his home by the Security Police (Amn Al Assiyassi) on 30 June 2008, taken to an unknown destination and held incommunicado since that date.

19 Sep 2008
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Emirates : Universal Periodic Review at the Human Rights Council

The third session of the Universal Periodic Review of the Human Rights Council will start on December 1, 2008. This session will review the United Arab Emirates. In this framework, Alkarama presented a contribution on July 14, 2008.

United Arab Emirates

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Universal Periodic Review (UPR)

  Third session from 1 – 15 December 2008

18 Sep 2008
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