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Governments’ vague and overbroad definitions of “terrorism,” “terrorist organisations,” and “violent extremism” are driving serious and systemic human rights violations worldwide and should be radically narrowed in any new UN framework, Alkarama highlighted in its latest report submitted to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on counter-terrorism and human rights.

The undersigned human rights organizations issue an urgent appeal to the international community and the conscience of the world to take immediate action to save the life of French national Mr. Amr Abdel Fattah, who is at grave risk of death, torture, and enforced disappearance while held in Saudi detention facilities.

Today, the world marks the International Day of Education, proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly on 3 December 2018, highlighting "the role of education in celebrating peace and development" and recognizing that “education is a human right, a public good and a public responsibility.” On this occasion, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), together with various regional partner organizations, is organizi

Nazhat Shameem Khan, Deputy Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, stated that, based on the information and evidence gathered by the Court, the Office of the Prosecutor considers that war crimes and crimes against humanity were committed in El Fasher, in the Darfur region, particularly toward the end of October. 

On 16 June 2024, Mr Amr Abdelfattah, a French engineer and father of three, was arrested on the esplanade of the Grand Mosque in Mecca during a check related to his pilgrimage permit. After a tense exchange with the police officer conducting the check, whose behaviour was particularly aggressive towards Mr Abdelfattah, he was taken to the Haram police station. 

The issue of enforced disappearances in Yemen has once again come to the forefront amid the waning influence of the Southern Transitional Council and its affiliated military formations backed by the United Arab Emirates (UAE). This development follows the takeover by forces aligned with the internationally recognized government of the temporary capital, Aden, as well as the southern and eastern governorates, a shift that has offered victims’ families a renewed sense of hope in learning the fate of their missing relatives. 

On 24 December 2025, Alkarama submitted a complaint to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) regarding nine Yemeni nationals who were formerly detained in Guantánamo Bay. Having been deprived of their liberty by the United States for several years without charge or trial, they were transferred to the United Arab Emirates between 2015 and 2016 on the understanding that they would be released upon arrival.

The family of the Yemeni detainee in Saudi Arabia, Bassam Shukri Al Jalladi, has finally been able to receive a phone call from him after an interruption lasting nearly a year and a half, thanks to the efforts made by his relatives with the administration of Qassim prison, where he is incarcerated.

The Moroccan activist Saida El Alami, currently detained at El Oukacha Prison in Casablanca, has recently been subjected to serious ill-treatment by prison staff, in a context revealing acts of reprisals linked to her recourse to United Nations mechanisms. 

By a judgment rendered on 17 December, the Casablanca Court of Appeal upheld the three-year prison sentence imposed on Ms. El Alami at first instance. 

Alkarama has learned from its sources that several militias affiliated with General Khalifa Haftar are holding Syrian nationals hostage and conditioning their release on official recognition by the new Syrian government. This situation concerns in particular five young men whose cases had already been submitted by Alkarama to the relevant United Nations special procedures.