Lebanon: Torture, ill-treatment and prosecution of civilians before military courts

LBN - News | 17 October 2008
Alkarama submitted 13 cases of people being tortured in Lebanon to the Special Rapporteur on Torture, on 15 October 2008. All were arrested as part of the tragic events of Nahr El Bared which took place from May to September 2007, and which opposed the regular Lebanese armed forces to an armed group entrenched in the Nahr El Bared refugee camp, located in the northern suburbs of Tripoli.

Libya: Salem Abdaslam reappears after more than nine months of having been disappeared

LBY - News | 10 October 2008
Alkarama for Human Rights has just learned that the Libyan authorities have informed the family of Mr Abdaslam of his current detention at the Ain Zara prison near Tripoli. One parent was allowed to visit him one time in prison.

Libya: Release of Dr. Idriss Aboufaied for health reasons

LBY - News | 09 October 2008
Alkarama for Human Rights, TRIAL (Track Impunity Always), 9 October 2008

Dr. Idriss Aboufaied, arrested on 17 February 2007 by the Libyan authorities, was released on the night of 8 to 9 October 2007 from Sabratha hospital on the outskirts of Tripoli, where he was hospitalized on 6 April 2008 as a result of gastric cancer from which he has suffered since his incarceration. According to sources close to the family, Dr. Idriss Aboufaied appears to have been allowed to travel abroad to receive medical treatment.

Saudi Arabia: The United Nations Working Group condemns Mr Amer Al Qahtani’s arbitrary detention

KSA - News | 08 October 2008
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.

The Independent : Secrets of Iraq's death chamber

Articles | 08 October 2008
Prisoners are being summarily executed in the government's high-security detention centre in Baghdad. Robert Fisk reports

Like all wars, the dark, untold stories of the Iraqi conflict drain from its shattered landscape like the filthy waters of the Tigris. And still the revelations come.

Time magazine - Six Years Inside Gitmo: A Journalist's Tale

Articles | 30 September 2008
Both John McCain and Barack Obama have said they would shut the U.S. military detention facility at Guantánamo Bay, where about 250 men remain behind bars — some in their eighth year of captivity. But neither presidential candidate has outlined when and how they plan to do it. One man ready to offer them some free advice on the problem of Guantánamo is Sami Al-Hajj, an al-Jazeera TV cameraman recently freed, without facing charges, after six and a half years at Guantánamo. "It's worse than the fire of Hell," he wrote two years ago from his cell to his British attorney, Clive Stafford Smith. "It makes people lose their senses. Death may come at any time."
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