Abdullah Al Nuaimy, a Bahraini, was detained by the United States of America Camp in Guantanamo Bay for more than 4 years before being released without trial on 05 November 2005. On 29 October 2008 he travelled to Saudi Arabia by road.
On 6 February 2009 the Human Rights Council will meet in order to undertake the Universal Periodic Review of Saudi Arabia. In this context, Alkarama presented its report on 8 September 2008.
Alkarama for Human Rights submitted, on 16 January 2009 an urgent appeal to the Special Rapporteur on Torture, asking him to intervene in the case of Mr Khaled Suleyman Al Omeir, arrested on 1 January 2009 and detained incommunicado since.
Mr Khaled Suleyman Al Omeir is 39 years old and is a key figure in the ‘reformers' movement, which calls for political reforms, via peaceful means, in the Kingdom.
Dr Matrouk Al-Faleh, a member of the Arab Commission for Human Rights, who was arrested on 19 May 2008 by the intelligence services (Al Mabahith) and detained incommunicado at the Al Hayr prison near Riyadh, has just been released.
Alkarama and the Arab Commission for Human Rights had addressed a communication to the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention as well as the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of o
Alkarama has just been officially informed of Opinion N° 13/2008 rendered during the last session of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention regarding the detention of Ali Al Chahri who was arrested on 23 August 2006.
Alkarama submitted an urgent appeal to the Special Rapporteur on Torture on 22 December 2008 to ask him to intervene in the case of Dr Saud b. Mubarek b. Zair, a campaigner for constitutional reforms, detained incommunicado since his arrest on 6 June 2007 (see press release).
Alkarama has just been informed of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention’s opinion 11/2008 , issued on 9 May 2008, regarding Mr Amer Al Qahtani, imprisoned for more than 10 years. Alkarama had submitted two communications concerning him, the first dated 18 May 2006.
Mr Amer b. Said b. Mohamed Al Thaqfan Al Qahtani, a teacher, residing in Riyadh, was aged 29 years at the time of his arrest in March 1998.
Alkarama for Human Rights has just been informed of the opinion issued on 8 May 2008 by the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention regarding Mr Abdul Rahman Al Sudais, arbitrarily detained since 2003. Alkarama had submitted a communication to the Working Group on 6 June 2005, asking them to intervene urgently with Saudi authorities.
Alkarama submitted, on 18 September 2008, a communication to the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, asking them to intervene in the case of Mr Khalid Al Shammari, a stateless person (Bedouin) from Kuwait, arrested in Saudi Arabia and detained incommunicado since January 2007.
Mr Khalid Said Khalid al-Shammari was born on 7 September 1980 and lives with his family in Kuwait City and carries an identity card for the stateless.
Alkarama submitted, on 11 September 2008 to the Special Rapporteurs on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment and on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions a communication concerning the death of Khaled Hatem, a Yemenite citizen, who was arrested at the end of April 2008 and had been detained in the Dahabanhe prison in Djedda since that time.
Abdullah Al Nuaimy, a Bahraini, was detained by the United States of America Camp in Guantanamo Bay for more than 4 years before being released without trial on 05 November 2005. On 29 October 2008 he travelled to Saudi Arabia by road.