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UPDATE: Ghassan Duar was released on July 29, 2018 after the completion of his sentence.

On 26 May 2017, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) issued Opinion 10/2017 on the case of Salim Abdullah Hussain Abu Abdullah declaring his detention arbitrary.

In view of the second periodic review of Mauritania by the Committee against Torture (CAT), Alkarama submitted on 26 June 2017 its contribution to the List of Issues prepared by the Committee’s experts.

Salih Al Dulaimi, a 47-year-old professor at the College of Engineering, University of Anbar, was arrested on 26 March 2015 and sentenced to death by the Iraqi Central Criminal Court on the basis of Iraq Antiterrorism Law after a deeply flawed trial.

On 30 June 2017, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) issued Opinion No.

On 4 July 2017, the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) issued Opinion No.

Ibrahim Abdulrahman Mohamed Ahmed Abdel Aleem, a student of the Al-Azhar University and anti-government peaceful activist, was abducted on 23 June 2017 from his home in the village of Ramleh in the Qalyubia Governorate, by members of the Homeland Security and State Security Forces. Abdel Aleem was taken to an unknown location and remains missing since. His family, who tried to inquire about his fate and whereabouts with the authorities have been left without any information and are extremely concerned that he might be subjected to torture due to his activism.

On 22 June 2017, and after more than a month of arbitrary detention, Hussam Al Abdallat, a Jordanian journalist charged with “defamation on social media” for criticising corruption within the Jordanian government through a Facebook post, was released on bail. However, he is still at risk of being sentenced to prison terms as the charges against him have not been dropped.

Ramsi Suleiman, 39 years old pharmacist in the Umm Summaq neighbourhood in Amman is missing after a group of several General Intelligence Directorate (GID) agents broke in his pharmacy and arrested him on 23 May 2017 at 11 pm. The GID members refuse to provide his relatives with any information on his fate and whereabouts or on the reason of his arrest. His family is calling upon the authorities to ensure the respect of his fundamental rights and his security.

On 29 June 2017, Alkarama submitted its report on the human rights situation in the United Arab Emirates to the Human Rights Council, in view of the UAE’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) which will be held in January 2018.