International Human Rights Day, 10 December, commemorates the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and with it the introduction of common human rights standards “for all peoples and all nations”. This day serves also as a stark reminder that, whenever and wherever humanity's values are abandoned, humanity is at greater risk. Yet, today, the people of Yemen have been abandoned by the international community.

The State Security Court of the Republic of the Comoros has sentenced former President Ahmed Abdallah Sambi to life in prison on charges of high treason, despite the decision of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention in which his detention was qualified as arbitrary.

Human rights sources reported that the forcibly disappeared Mr. Walid Fouad Al Ghunaimi Al Maghazi appeared before the State Security Prosecution on 27 October 2022 who decided to detain him in Abu Zaabal prison. His family was unable to visit him or access to his criminal case file.

Alkarama has learned that the Egyptian authorities have released the young Egyptian, Karim Yasser Abdelnabi Abdelazim, pending further investigation -whose details remain unknown-, and whose case was submitted by Alkarama on behalf of the family to the United Nations Special Procedures. 

Human rights sources reported that the Saudi Criminal Court of Appeal decided to toughen the sentence issued against the Saudi preacher, Khaled Al-Rashed, condemning him a second time, and adding another 17 years to his sentence, to become 40 years, in another flagrant violation of the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention’s Opinion calling for his release.

The United Nations Committee on Enforced Disappearances is visiting Iraq starting November 12 to determine ways to address cases of enforced disappearance in line with its mandate under Article 33 of the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance.

The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Mr.

The Universal Periodic Review (UPR), a process conducted by States within the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) in Geneva, consists of "reviewing the human rights achievements of all UN Member States".

The wife of prominent Saudi Arabian prisoner of conscience Dr Muhammad Al-Qahtani has called for the disclosure of her husband’s fate who has been cut off from all telephone contact. The authorities cut off his usual telephone contact with his family, which was scheduled for October 24.

Alkarama learned from Saudi human rights sources that the Criminal Court of Appeal, which specializes in state security cases, had issued a five-year prison sentence against the detained Yemeni journalist, Marwan Al-Muraisy.