Kuwait - Latest Press Releases

YEM - News

Yemen: Release of Mr Louay Al-Mouayyad, journalist and human rights activist

YEM - News | 19 September 2008
Alkarama has learned of the release of Mr Louay Al-Mouayyad on 12 September 2008 at 1 am after 74 days of detention. He was not subject to any legal proceedings during his detention and was released without ever being brought before a judicial authority.

Yemen: Arrest and detention of Mr Louay Al-Mouayyad

YEM - News | 16 August 2008
mouayyad_yemen.jpgmouayyad_yemen.jpg On 10 August 2008 Alkarama submitted on a communication to the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, the Special Rapporteur on Torture, the Special Representative for Defenders of Human Rights and the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, asking them to intervene urgently in the case of Mr Al-Mouayyad, journalist and human rights activist, and a member of the Organization for the rights and democratic freedoms, arrested and held incommunicado by the security policy, without legal procedure, since 30 June 2008.

Yemen: Arbitrary arrest and detention without due process of law by Mr Abdullah Al-Rimi

YEM - News | 08 August 2008
On 5 August 2008 Alkarama submitted a communication to the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and the Special Rapporteur on torture concerning Mr Abdullah Al-Rimi. Arrested on 3 April 2008, he has been detained without legal procedure by the intelligence services.

Yemen: The Working Group of the United Nations finds that the detention of Mr. Al Chouiter was arbitrary

YEM - News | 03 July 2008
Alkarama has just been officially informed by the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) of the Opinion 9 / 2008 of 8 May 2008 on Arbitrary Detention which has been the victim M. Saqar Al Chouiter, arrested April 7, 2007 and released after 52 days of detention.

Yemen: Release of Mr. Adel Al Shahrani

YEM - News | 01 June 2008
Alkarama for Human Rights, 1 June 2008

Alkarama has learned that Mr. Adel Yahia Yahia Al Shahrani was released on May 27, 2008. He was arrested and held incommunicado by the intelligence services (Al Amn Assiyassi) in Sanaa since August 15, 2007 and has not been the subject of any legal procedure.

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