Articles for Oman

On 10 November 2015, the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) adopted a draft report containing the recommendations made by United Nations Member States to Oman during the State's review, which took place on 5 November 2015.

On 9 October 2015, UPR Info held the pre-session meeting on Oman in view of the State's second review under the United Nations Universal Periodic Review (UPR), which will take place during the UPR's 23rd session in November.

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

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 23 March 2015, Alkarama submitted its report in view of Oman's upcoming Universal Periodic Review (UPR), which will take place in November 2015 during the 23rd session of the UPR Working Group.

On 8 March 2015, Omani human rights defender, Said Jadad was condemned to three years imprisonment by Muscat's Court of First Instance. Jadad is also still waiting for another trial before the Court of Salalah, which could subject him to further sanctions. While the criminal procedures against him in Muscat are based on the overly broad incrimination of "harming the State's prestige," the charges brought against him in Salalah are targeting his peaceful criticism of the State's repressive policies on social media.

Alkarama welcomes the public call for the immediate release of Said Jadad, after several urgent appeals sent to the United Nations Special Procedures.

The public call for release is published below in its original version.

Oman: UN experts call for the immediate release of prominent rights activist, as reprisals continue unchecked

A year after the two communications – on the arbitrary nature of Omani Parliamentary, Al Ma'amari's arrest and detention – sent by Alkarama in 2013 to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) and the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), both issued their decision stating that Al Ma'amari's detention was arbitrary and his right to freedom of expression violated. They consequently urged the Omani authorities to release him immediately.

On 22 January 2015, Alkarama sent an urgent appeal to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) and several other Special Procedures of the Human Rights Council regarding the case of Said Jadad, a 56-year-old prominent Human Rights Defender (HRD) arbitrarily arrested and secretly detained at least four times in the past two years for his peaceful activism for justice and human rights.

On 11 December 2014, Alkarama sent an urgent appeal to the United Nations' Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, Mr Maina Kiai, as well as the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (