Kuwait - Latest Press Releases

MOR - News

Morocco: Alkarama highlights need to follow through positive developments with legislative changes

MOR - News | 01 October 2012
Morocco_CAT2012 In November 2011, the UN Committee against Torture reviewed Morocco, and requested it provide information about several urgent issues that needed to be addressed within one year. Alkarama, having submitted information in view of the review, decided to provide further follow up information regarding its key priorities for the country: criminalization and imprescriptibility of torture and basic legal safeguards, the use of confessions extracted under torture and the excessive anti-terrorism measures, as well as secret detention.

Morocco: Abdessamad Bettar in critical state following 80 day hunger strike

MOR - News | 04 July 2012
Alkarama expresses serious concern about the state of Abdessamad Bettar's health. Bettar is now hospitalized in the intensive care unit at Mohamed V hospital in Safi after enduring 80 days of hunger strike. He began the strike in April to protest the unjust nature of his trial and the torture he was subjected to in prison.

Morocco: Mohamed Hajib arbitrarily detained, subjected to torture and mistreatment in prison

MOR - News | 15 June 2012
M. Mohamed Hajib, a 31 year-old German-Morrocan man, is detained at Morocco's Salé prison where the torture and mistreatment to which he has been subjected is continually escalating.

Morocco: Sofiane Alazami has been found

MOR - News | 23 May 2012

On 21 May 2012, a person calling themselves an official of the psychiatric hospital of Ar-Razi in Salé called his father to inform him that his son was being held in the establishment. The same day, his father went to find him.

Morocco: Sofiane Alazami, victim of enforced disappearance

MOR - News | 16 May 2012
Alkarama seized the Special Procedures of the United Nations of the case of Sofiane Alazami today, who was abducted on the night of 5-6 May 2012 while he was on his way to Casablanca to look for work. His family has not received any news of him since this date, despite several attempts to find him.

Sofiane Alazami left Fez to go to Casablanca while looking for work. He called his mother on 5 May around 4:00 a.m. to let her know that he was in Casablanca but that he would soon return to Fez.

Kuwait - HR Instruments

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)

ICCPR: Accessed on 21.05.1996
Optional Protocol: No

State report: Due 02.11.2014 (3rd)
Last concluding observations: 22.12.2011

Convention against Torture (CAT)

CAT: Accessed on 08.03.1996
Optional Protocol: No
Art. 20 (Confidential inquiry): No
Art. 22 (Individual communications): No

Next State report: Due on 03.06.2015 (3rd)
Last concluding observations: 28.06.2011

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

No

Universal Periodic Review (UPR)

Last review: 05.2010 (1st cycle)
Next review: 2015 (2nd cycle)

National Human Rights Institution (NHRI)

No