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Algeria: The Committee against Torture of the UN lays bare the mechanism of repression

Alkarama for Human Rights, May 19, 2008

Alkarama welcomes the observations of the Committee against Torture published on May 16, 2008. They largely reflect its own concerns about the situation of human rights in Algeria.
19 May 2008
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Yemen: arrest and secret detention of Abdeladhim Al Hattar

Alkarama for Human Rights, May 13, 2008

Alkarama wrote on May 9, 2008 to the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention communication, asking it to intervene in the case of Mr. Al Hattar arrested on December 14, 2007 and held incommunicado for three months.
Mr. Abdeljalil Abdeladhim Ali AL-HATTAR was born in 1982 and lives in Sanaa where he holds the "Imam Al-Haramayn" position in the City of Al-Asbahi in the same city.
13 May 2008
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Saudi Arabia: Arbitrary detention of Mr. Abdel Rahman Samara

Alkarama for Human Rights, May 12, 2008

Alkarama asked, on May 8, 2008, the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention to intervene in the case of Mr. Samara, arbitrarily detained since July 17, 2007.
Mr. Marwan Abdel Rahman Ahmad SAMARA, Palestinian citizen, was born in 1984 and lives in Riyadh. He is married and father of a baby girl.
12 May 2008
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Algeria before the Committee against Torture : The failure of the rhetoric of war

Alkarama for Human Rights, May 6, 2008

Representatives of Alkarama attended the periodic review of Algerian by the Committee against Torture (CAT) held on 2 and 5 May 2008. Our organization had submitted a few weeks earlier an alternative report to the Committee.
06 May 2008
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Libya: Reappearance of Abdussalam Il-Khwildy, missing since October 17, 2006

Alkarama for Human Rights, May 5, 2008
05 May 2008
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Guantanamo / USA: Release of Sami Al Hajj after 6 ½ years of detention

On 2 May 2008, Sami Al Hajj, a cameraman for Al Jazeera, was finally released. He was arrested on December 15, 2001, near the Pakistan border and detained at Guantanamo Bay. He was taken, handcuffed, in an American plane to Khartoum airport. He was handed over to the Sudanese authorities and was immediately transferred to the Amal hospital. He managed to give his first interview although he did look very weak.
The U.S.
03 May 2008
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Saudi Arabia: Liberation of Fouad Ahmad Al Farhan

Alkarama for Human Rights, April 29, 2008

Alkarama just learned that Fouad Al Farhan, who was arrested on December 10, 2007 and held incommunicado for nearly a month, was released on 26 April 2008.
Alkarama had alerted on 14 January 2008 Ms. Louise Arbour, High Commissioner for Human Rights, asking her to intervene with the Saudi authorities and had as well seized on 29 February 2008 the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention .
29 Apr 2008
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Libya: Release of Abdelsalam Ibrahim Mohammed

Alkarama for human Rights, April 28, 2008

Alkarama just learned that Abdelsalam Ibrahim Mohammed who had been deported from Switzerland on 23 November 2007 and had since disappeared was released on 27 April 2008.

28 Apr 2008
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Human Rights Watch : UN, Mixed Results for New Review Process

States Avoid Serious Discussion of Rights in Algeria, Tunisia

(Geneva, April 18, 2008) – The first session of the new country review mechanism of the UN Human Rights Council was undermined by inconsistencies and the timidity of some governments in reviewing others, Human Rights Watch said today. On April 18, 2008 the council concluded a two-week session in which it examined the records of 16 countries as part of the new Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process.

25 Apr 2008
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Egypt: Release of Khaled Hamza, human rights defender

Alkarama has just been informed about the release on 15 April 2008 of Mr. Khaled Hamza, defender of human rights, who was arrested on 20 February 2008. Mr. Hamza reports that he was mistreated during his detention and that he is still the subject, as was affirmed to him by officers of the intelligence services, to prosecution without receiving any further details.
20 Apr 2008
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