Alkarama for Human Rights, March 22, 2008

Alkarama and the Arab Commission on Human Rights have sent a communication to the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and the Special Rapporteur on Torture to ask them to intervene in the case of Mahmoud Hozbor, detained since 03 July 2003 in Saudi Arabia in a secret location and without due process of law.

Alkarama for Human Rights, March 21, 2008

The Arab Charter on Human Rights was adopted by the Arab League in 1994. It has been signed by only one state, Iraq, among the 22 members of the League. None of them had ratified it. An updating process has been initiated and led to an amended and adopted version by the Arab summit in Tunis in 2004.

The Arab Charter on Human Rights entered into force on March 16, 2008, 60 days after ratification of the seventh member state of the Arab League.

Alkarama and the Arab Commission on Human Rights have appealed to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) and the Special Representative for the Defenders of Human Rights to ask them to intervene in the case of Mr. Khaled Hamza.

Mr. Khaled Hamza, born Oct. 28, 1963, resides in Dakahlia. He is a civil engineer and editor in chief of the English information website of the Muslim Brotherhood organization (http://www.ikhwanweb.com).

AlKarama has learned that Mr. Issam Al-Uteibi has been released on March 12, 2008. Arrested on Nov. 28, 2002, he was kept in detention without legal process and despite a judgement of acquittal on 27 December 2004. To protest against this situation, he started a hunger strike on February 4, 2008. The Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, sought by AlKarama had issued an opinion in which he considered his detention as being arbitrary.

AlKarama for Human Rights, March 10, 2008

The Council on Human Rights meets on April 8, 2008 to carry out the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) on Tunisia. AlKarama has thus submitted its contribution, within this framework, on Nov. 20, 2007.

AlKarama for Human Rights, Nov. 20, 2007

Alkarama for Human Rights, March 10, 2008

Algeria

Contribution in the context of the Universal Periodic Review
Alkarama for Human Rights, Nov. 20, 2007

AlKarama for Human Rights, February 28, 2008

AlKarama has send on February 27 a communication to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention asking for its intervention with the Saudi authorities in the case of Mr Naive Abdellah Al Qahtani, detained without due process of  law since 09 August 2004.

Mr. Naif Mohamed Abdellah AL QAHTANI was born in 1972. He resides with his family in Al Kharj, Saudi Arabia, where he is a civil servant in the local administration.