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UAE: “No case number” – Turkish Academic Abducted by Security Services in Dubai

UAE - News | 03 December 2014

On 20 November 2014, Alkarama sent an Urgent Appeal to the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances as well as to the Special Rapporteur on torture on the case of Amer Alshava, a Turkish national, academician and businessman who was abducted on 2 October 2014 at Dubai's Airport, UAE. His whereabouts remain unknown to date.

UAE: Two Qatari Citizens Arbitrarily Detained With High Risk of Torture

UAE - News | 02 October 2014

On 30 September 2014, Alkarama submitted an urgent appeal to the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) regarding the case of two Qatari nationals who have been detained incommunicado since their arrest on 27 June 2014 by United Arab Emirates' police.

UAE: Osama Al Najjar, an activist arbitrarily detained and tried for defending human rights

UAE - News | 24 September 2014

Alkarama recalled the case of Mr Al Najjar to the Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders as he is to face his first hearing today, before the Federal Supreme Court which is famous for handling unfair trials.

United Arab Emirates: Two Egyptians disappeared in Abu Dhabi

UAE - News | 07 May 2014

Mr Ahmed Mossad Elmaadawi Mohamed and his father-in-law, Mr Abdul Rahim Mohamed Yousef Nour Al Din, have been arrested respectively on 13 January 2014 and 13 February 2014 in Abu Dhabi and have disappeared since. They are both of Egyptian nationality and were aged 29 and 58 at the time of their disappearances.

UAE: Son of UAE94 detainee tortured during four days for a tweet

UAE - News | 03 April 2014

UAE Osama Al Najjar

Osama Al Najjar, an Emirati human rights activist and the son of one of the 'UAE94', was tortured for four days during his secret detention by officers from the state security services who arrested him for a tweet. He was arrested on 17 March 2014 on his way back home, the day after he posted a tweet in reply to a radio statement made by the Emir of Sharjah Emirate on the 'UAE94' case. On 19 March, as he was held in secret detention, Alkarama solicited the urgent intervention of the UN Special Procedures with the UAE authorities. It was only two weeks later that Alkarama learned about what happened to him during his secret detention.

Egypt - HR Instruments

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)

ICCPR: Ratified on 14.01.1982
Optional Protocol: No

State report: Overdue since 01.11.2004 (4th)
Last concluding observations: 28.11.2002

Convention against Torture (CAT)

CAT: Accessed on 25.06.1986
Optional Protocol: No
Art. 20 (Confidential inquiry): Yes
Art. 22 (Individual communications): No

State report: Due on 25.06.2016 (initially due in 2004)
Last concluding observations: 23.12.2002

International Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance (CED)

No

Universal Periodic Review (UPR)

Last review: 02.2010 (1st cycle)
Next review: 2014 (2nd cycle)

National Human Rights Institution (NHRI)

National Council for Human Rights (NCHR) – Status A

Last review: 10.2006
Next review: Deferred