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Syria: Disappearance Ammar Al-Suttof since 1993

SYR - News | 17 June 2009

Mr Ammar Al-Suttof, a nurse and a Syrian national, was mostly likely arrested by Syrian security forces in Beirut in 1993 and has since disappeared.

Syria: Enforced disappearance of eight members of the Kurdish community in Qamishli

SYR - News | 14 May 2009

Between late August and November 2008, Syrian security services arrested eight people in Qamishli, a town in the north-east of Syria. These people have since disappeared. Alkarama submitted a communication to the Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID), asking it to intervene with the Syrian authorities.

Syria: Arbitrary detentions and killings in Sednaya prison

SYR - News | 22 October 2008

Alkarama today submitted to the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention the cases of Messrs Mustapha Kamel Houriya aged 52, Ahmed Abdelkader Kerroum and Youcef Amar Dehnine, both aged 41 years.

Iraq - HR Instruments

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)

ICCPR: Ratified on 25.01.1971
Optional Protocol: No

Last State report: 11.10.2013
Last concluding observations: 19.11.1997

Convention against Torture (CAT)

CAT: Accessed on 07.07.2011
Optional Protocol: No
Art. 20 (Confidential inquiry): Yes
Art. 22 (Individual communications): No

Last State report: 30.06.2014
Last concluding observations: 17.09.2015

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

CED: Accessed on 23.11.2010
Art. 33 (Inquiry procedure): Yes

Last State report: 26.06.2014
Last concluding observations: 18.09.2015

Universal Periodic Review (UPR)

Last review: 11.2014 (2^nd cycle)

National Human Rights Institution (NHRI)

Independent High Commission for Human Rights (IHCHR) – Status B