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On 2 June 2023, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD)

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.

"I am not afraid of justice but of injustice", wrote the former President of the Comoros, Mr. Ahmed Mohamed Abdallah Sambi, in a letter addressed to President Azali Assoumani, to underline a legal situation that is unprecedented in the history of Comorian justice.

Alkarama and some 30 human rights non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have invited member states of the UN General Assembly to join the "Joint Interregional Statement on Reprisals during the Interactive Dialogue with the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders".

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, has warned of the dangers of the widespread and apparent use of Pegasus spyware to illegally infringe on the rights of those being monitored, including journalists and politicians, as part of tools to intimidate critics and silence dissent. According to the senior UN official, the surveillance programmes arrest, intimidate and even kill journalists and human rights defenders.

On 24 March 2021, Alkarama sent an urgent appeal to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) in order to obtain the release of Mr. Ahmed Abdallah Mohammed Sambi (63 years old), former Head of State of the Comoros (2006-2011) who is arbitrarily detained.

United Nations human rights experts called on Washington to ensure that those responsible for the violations suffered by the notorious "Guantanamo" detainees be punished, and that the victims be compensated. They also welcomed US President Joe Biden's announcement of his intention to close the detention facility.

Initially scheduled in October 2013 and postponed due to the government shutdown, the review of the fourth periodic report of the United States of America (USA) by the