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On 17 May 2015, the Egyptian authorities announced having carried out the death penalty against Mohamed Ali Afifi Badawi, Mohammad Bakri Mohammad Harun, Hani Mustafa Amine Amer, Abdul-Rahman Sayed Rizq, Khaled Farag Mohammed Mohammed Ali and Islam Sayed Ahmed Ibrahim aged between 19 and 33 years of age. These six men had been unlawfully sentenced to death by a military court on 21 October 2014 for crimes they could not have committed, since they were secretly detained at the time when these acts occurred.

On 14 May 2015, Alkarama has provided the United Nations Secretary General (UNSG) Ban Ki-moon with a report on the state of reprisals in the Arab world and in particular on individuals who have suffered from harassment and intimidation for their cooperation with the UN, especially in Oman, Syria, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.

On 18 May 2015, Alkarama sent an urgent appeal to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions (SUMX) regarding the sentencing to death of Mohamed Morsi, first democratically elected president of Egypt, together with 105 co-defendants for having escaped the Al Wadi Natrun prison during the 2011 revolution.

On 13 May 2015, Libya's second Universal Periodic Review (UPR) was held at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. This process, which first started in 2008, occurs every four and a half years and aims to assess the human rights record of each United Nations' Member State by the Human Rights Council (HRC). It is thus an ongoing and daily tool to advance human rights. For this 22nd Session, 14 countries, including Libya, are examined.

On 7 May 2015, Alkarama sent an urgent appeal to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture (SRT) regarding the arbitrary detention, torture and continuous ill-treatment of two children, 16-year-old Ahmed Shaaban Youssef and his 14-year-old brother, Ibrahim Shaaban Youssef, since their respective arrests on 22 February 2014 and 3 January 2015.

On 23 April 2015, Alkarama sent a communication to the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) concerning the case of Nazir Idris and Sabah Kabakibo, a married couple from the district of Khaldiyeh in Homs and parents of four children, who disappeared after their arrest at a checkpoint of the Air Force Intelligence by the Mediterranean coast over two years ago.

On 7 May 2015, Alkarama sent a communication to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers (SR IJL) regarding the case of four high-profile Iraqi lawyers, victims of harassment by the Iraqi authorities, including through arbitrary arrest and detention, and even one extrajudicial execution. Defending political opponents and persons allegedly close to them, the lawyers have all been accused of terrorism in heavily flawed and politically-motivated trials.

On the 30 April 2015, Alkarama sent a follow-up communication to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights of freedom to peaceful assembly and of association (SR FPAA) regarding the case of Mohammed Al Fazari, an Omani journalist and human rights activist whose passport was confiscated at Muscat International Airport on 22 December 2014 as he was travelling to London, before being informed that a travel ban had been issued against him and further interrogat

On 30 April 2015, Alkarama sent a communication to the United Nations Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED) regarding the case of Saleh Musa Ahmed Al Baydani, a Yemeni citizen who has been missing for over 10 months from the prison where he had been detained since December 2012. Arrested in August 2009 by U.S. forces when he was only 17, Al Baydani was sentenced to death two years later. His family is extremely concerned by his disappearance, as he remains at high risk of being executed.

Alkarama sent a second urgent appeal to the Chairperson-Rapporteur of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) concerning the upcoming hearing of Mr Abdulaziz Al Shabili, a Saudi Human Rights Defender (HRD) awaiting prosecution by the Specialised Court on Terrorism and facing over 10 years in arbitrary detention for "incitement to demonstrate" and "insulting Saudi authorities by describing them as a police State which violates human rights." This case undersc

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