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On 15 April 2015, Riad Abdel Majeed Al Obeidi was freed after 10 months of detention in the secret facility of the old Muthanna airport in Western Baghdad. Alkarama and Al Wissam Humanitarian Assembly had solicited the urgent intervention of the United Nations Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED) on Al Obeidi's behalf three months after his abduction, leading to his successful release.

Today marks a year of arbitrary detention of the Saudi lawyer and human rights defender, Waleed Abu Al Khair. His family launches a Twitter campaign at 6pm advocating for his release.

On 15 April 2015, Alkarama sent a communication asking the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) to call upon the Iraqi authorities to immediately release 17 people arrested for their real or perceived link with former Vice President Tariq Al Hashimi. Secretly detained and tortured, they have all been accused of acts of "terrorism" and sentenced to death by the Central Criminal Court of Iraq on the basis of their forced confessions.

On 31 March 2015 and 7 April 2015, Alkarama and Human Rights Guardians referred to the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic (CoI Syria) the cases of three Syrian citizens abducted between July and October 2013 by the al-Nusra Front and

On 10 April 2015, Alkarama sent a communication to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions (SR SUMX) concerning the death under torture of Rami Rajab Abdelatti Al Fitouri on 21 March 2015.

On 10 April 2015, Alkarama sent a communication to the United Nations Working Group on Enforced Disappearance (WGEID) regarding the case of Mohamad Amir Mashki, a 16-year-old secondary school student from the town of Deir Muqaran, a village in southern Syria located 25km northwest of Damascus, who disappeared since his arrest at an Air Force Intelligence checkpoint in the Rif Dimashq Governorate on 8 October 2012.

On 10 April 2015, Alkarama sent an urgent appeal to the United Nations Working on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) regarding the disappearances of four Egyptian citizens in late 2014 and early 2015, because of their alleged affiliation with the Muslim Brotherhood, a socio-political movement that continues to be the subject of a violent repression from the authorities.

Alkarama welcomes the release on bail of Said Jadad, imprisoned since 21 January 2015 after numerous measures of retaliation against his human rights activism. On 30 January, a public call for his immediate release was jointly issued by several UN Special Rapporteurs, whom Alkarama had sent urgent appeals to.

On 8 April 2015, Alkarama sent a communication to the United Nations Working Group on Enforced Disappearances (WGEID) concerning the disappearance of Ward Raad, a 21-year-old student from Qalamoun, a province in the countryside of Damascus.

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