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Lebanon: Activist Lucien Bourjeily Injured by Security Forces Using Excessive Force During Peaceful Manifestation
LBN - News | 16 September 2015
On 14 September 2015, Alkarama and the Lebanese organisation March sent a communication to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association (SR FPAA), Maina Kiai, regarding the case of Lebanese writer, director and social activist, Lucien Bourjeily, injured by security forces during a peaceful protest in Beirut, on 25 August 2015.
Lebanon: Major Human Rights Violations to be Adressed at Universal Periodic Review
LBN - News | 12 March 2015
On 23 March 2015 Alkarama will submitt its report on Lebanon's human rights record to the Human Rights Council (HRC) in view of Lebanon's Universal Periodic Review (UPR) on 3 November 2015. Alkarama raised key issues such as the widespread use of torture, the recourse to arbitrary detention as well as violations of fair trial rights. Alkarama's report also points out the lack of implementation of several recommendations issued on the first UPR and accepted by Lebanon.
Lebanon: Tarek Rabaa Set Free After 4 Years of Arbitrary Detention
LBN - News | 24 February 2015
On 1 February 2015, Tarek Rabaa was set free, after more than four years of detention in Lebanese jails. Summoned to the Ministry of Defence for investigation on 12 July 2010, the 45-year-old Lebanese engineer was subsequently arrested. An arrest warrant was issued a month later on charges of "collaborating and communicating with the enemy".
Lebanon: UN Calls for the Immediate Release of Two Lebanese Citizens Arbitrarily Detained for over 6 Years
LBN - News | 15 January 2015
During its 71st session held in Geneva on 28 August 2014, the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) adopted an opinion on the case of Tariq Mostafa Marei and Abdel Karim Al Mustafa, two Lebanese citizens sentenced on 6 August 2013 to 15 years in prison, following a flawed trial. In this opinion, the WGAD considers their detention "arbitrary" and calls for their immediate release.
The United Nations Committee against Torture’s report confirms shared concerns amongst Lebanese civil society organisations on the occurrences of torture and ill-treatment in Lebanese detention facilities
LBN - News | 20 October 2014
Beirut, 20 October 2014
On 7 October 2014, the UN Committee against Torture (CAT) publicized the summary of the inquiry on the practice of torture in Lebanon conducted between May 2012 and November 2013. Describing torture in Lebanon as a "pervasive practice that is routinely used by the armed forces and law enforcement agencies," the report shows the systematic occurrence of such practices in Lebanon in accordance with Article 20 of the Convention against Torture. The report has set off alarm bells on the human rights situation and the conditions of detention in Lebanon in particular the safeguards of protection of people deprived of their liberty. Ad hoc and stand-alone interventions taken by the Lebanese authorities have proven to be inefficient and unsuccessful in prohibiting and preventing the practice of torture in the country.