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Iraq: Prime Minister and Ministry of Justice Call for Executions of "Terrorists" on Death Row
On Monday 4 July 2016, a day after the two deadly Baghdad bombings, the Iraqi Ministry of Justice announced the implementation of death sentences against five convicts on death row, upon request of the Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi. New death sentences are soon to be announced said the Ministry of Justice, affirming that it would continue "to deliver just punishment to those whose hands are stained with the blood of Iraqis".
Egypt: Release of Eight Young Women Who Were Detained and Tortured for Peacefully Demonstrating
On 28 June 2016, after more than a year of arbitrary detention and exposure to torture, eight young women were liberated from Port-Said prison after their acquittal by Damietta Criminal Court in Egypt, while two others remain detained to date.
Sudan: Release of Students Who Were Subjected to Arbitrary Arrest, Incommunicado Detention and Severe Ill-Treatment
On 19 June 2016, after a month and a half of incommunicado detention, Sudanese students Mai Adil Ibrahim Mohamed and Wifag Mohamed Gourashi Al Tayib were released by the authorities. They had been arrested on 5 May 2016 by officers of the National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS), while gathering at Lawyer Nabil Adib's law firm in Khartoum.
Israel: Cruel and Discriminatory Treatment of 12 and 15-year-old Palestinians
Two teenagers, Muawiya Alqam and Shadi Farrah, as young as 15 and 13 years old, are currently amongst the hundreds of Palestinian children detained in Israeli prisons. Both violently arrested and deprived of their basic fair trial rights, a discriminatory treatment applied to Palestinians only, they are now facing prosecution before the Israeli Central Criminal Court for "possessing knives."
Open Letter from 244 NGOs to Member States of the UN Human Rights Council For Strong Civil Society Protection
29 June 2016
Your Excellency,
We, the undersigned 244 civil society organizations, spanning across all regions of the world, call on your delegation to stand in solidarity with civil society by supporting the draft resolution on the protection of civil society space, to be considered for adoption at the 32nd session of the Human Rights Council (on 30 June or 1 July). We urge you to cosponsor the draft resolution, reject all amendments, and vote in favour of the resolution if a vote is called.
Lebanon: Release of Syrian Citizen Disappeared from the General Security Premises in Beirut
On 23 June 2016 at 1 am, Malaz Asaad was released from the premises of the General Security in Adlieh, Beirut. He had been missing for almost one month. Welcoming his release, on 24 June 2016 Alkarama informed the United Nations Working Group on Enforced Disappearances (WGEID), to which it had submitted Malaz's disappearance on 17 June 2016.
