Alkarama for Human Rights, 25 June 2007

Alkarama for Human Rights has just learned that the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention issued an opinion on 8 May 2007 about the detention of Mr. Faiz bin Abdelmohsen Al Qaid.  It judges it to constitute arbitrary detention and demands that the Saudi government remedy this situation.

Alkarama for Human Rights, 27 June 2007

On 13/06/2007 Alkarama for Human Rights appealed to Ms. Louise Arbour, High Commissioner for Human Rights, regarding the arrest and maltreatment of Mr. Khalid Gharamallah Awdah al-Zahrani, a Saudi national born on 11 April 1972 living in King Fahd Neighbourhood in Riyadh.

Alkarama for Human Rights, 27 June 2007 

Marking the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture (26/06/2007), Ban Ki Moon, the Secretary General of the United Nations, roundly condemned the practice and called on all countries to ratify the International Convention against Torture.

Alkarama for Human Rights, 28 June 2007

Alkarama for Human Rights, 26 June 2007

Alkarama for Human Rights has just learned that Mr. Issam Al Kohali was freed on 23 July 2007 after 68 days of secret detention, 10 days after starting a hunger strike.

Let us react to the report the government submitted to the UN Human Rights Committee 

Alkarama and Algeria-Watch, 25 June 2007

Alkarama for Human Rights and Algeria-Watch, 21 June 2007

Alkarama for Human Rights and Algeria-Watch have noted the investigations made by the UN Human Rights Committee during its 89^th session in New York, 12-30 March 2007, in the case of the sentencing of Mr. Abbassi Madani to 12 years of criminal imprisonment by the military court of Blida, and his house arrest afterwards.

Alkarama for Human Rights, 19 June 2007

Over the past two years, Alkarama for Human Rights has been asked to intervene in many hundreds of cases of arbitrary detention concerning Egyptian citizens detained in some cases since 1990 – that is, for more than 17 years – by virtue of the State of Emergency Law and by simple administrative decision.

Many cases have been, and continue to be, submitted by our organisation to the UN human rights protection bodies and in particular to the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention.

Alkarama for Human Rights, 10 juin 2007

Alkarama for Human Rights, 9 June 2007

Dr. Said ben Zair, aged 57, professor of sciences and information at Riyadh University, was arrested in Riyadh on 6 June 2007.  He is well-known in the country for his spirit of independence and the public positions he holds on the need for institutional reforms in the country as well as for his support for the reformists’ movement.