Alkarama for Human Rights, 16 January 2008..
The U.N working group on arbitrary detentions stated its decision No. 24/2007 concerning the case of Mr. Mustafa Shamia who was detained for 13 years without trial and was finally released on 23 July, 2007. Alkarama organization has appealed to the U.N working group on arbitrary detentions on July 7, 2007 to intervene urgently concerning the matter of Mr. Shamia.
Alkarama for Human Rights, 3 July 2007
Alkarama for Human Rights has written to the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention to inform it of 14 cases of arbitrary detention and ask it to intervene with the Egyptian government, which ratified the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights on 14 January 1982 and the Convention against Torture on 25 June 1986.
Arbitrary detention in Egypt has become a routine and very widespread affair, to the point that any person may be detained by administrative decision at ant time under the State of Emergency Law that governs the land. Alkarama for Human Rights has observed hundreds of cases of arbitrary detention over the past years, and has brought new cases of these violations to the attention of specialised UN bodies such as the Working Group for Arbitrary Detention.
Alkarama for Human Rights, 19 June 2007
Over the past two years, Alkarama for Human Rights has been asked to intervene in many hundreds of cases of arbitrary detention concerning Egyptian citizens detained in some cases since 1990 – that is, for more than 17 years – by virtue of the State of Emergency Law and by simple administrative decision.
Many cases have been, and continue to be, submitted by our organisation to the UN human rights protection bodies and in particular to the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention.