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Syria: Halt Hussam Youssef's Trial before Military Field Court

SYR - News | 18 December 2013
AlkWeb_HussamYOUSSEF_Picture1 Hussam Youssef, a 21-year-old Syrian student who disappeared over a year ago, may now stand trial before a Syrian Military Field Court. According to Syrian human rights lawyers and activists, many individuals who were previously tried in this type of military court were either sentenced to death or life imprisonment following grossly unfair trials.
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Syria: Abducted human rights lawyer Razan Zaitouneh and her three colleagues must be released unharmed

SYR - News | 11 December 2013
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Four Syrian activists abducted in the Damascus suburbs, apparently in relation to their human rights and humanitarian work, must be released immediately and unconditionally, 16 human rights organizations said today.

Award-winning Syrian human rights defender and writer Razan Zaitouneh, along with her husband, Wa'el Hamada, and two colleagues, Nazem Hamadi and Samira Khalil, were abducted by unknown individuals on 9 December 2013 from a joint office for the Violations Documentation Center (VDC) and the Local Development and Small Projects Support (LDSPS) in the Damascus suburb of Douma, part of Eastern Ghouta, an area under the control of a number of armed opposition groups that is being besieged by government forces.

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Syria: Arrest and Disappearance of Mother and her Two Children

SYR - News | 03 December 2013
On 18 November 2013, the Alkarama Foundation and the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) jointly submitted a communication to the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances regarding to the case of Ghazala Shabo and her two children,
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Urgent appeal for the release of prisoners of conscience and all detainees in Syria

SYR - News | 26 November 2013
The undersigned organizations express their utmost concerns as for the fate of tens of thousands of detainees in Syria and urge all parties to guarantee in all circumstances their physical and psychological integrity and release those arbitrarily detained.
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Syria: Arrest and Disappearance of the Tuffaha Siblings

SYR - News | 15 November 2013
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On 13 November, the Alkarama Foundation and the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) jointly submitted an urgent appeal to the Working Group on Enforced Disappearances (WGEID) regarding the enforced disappearance of two siblings, Mohamed and Marwa Tuffaha. Mohamed and Marwa are of Palestinian nationality, but have been born in Syria and have resided there until their disappearance in October 2013. Mohamed is 22, while Marwa is 20, and they are both students at the University of Damascus.
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Mauritania - HR Instruments

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)

ICCPR: Accessed on 17.11.2004
Optional Protocol: No

State report: Due on 01.11.2017 (2nd)
Last concluding observations: 20.11.2013

Convention against Torture (CAT)

CAT: Accessed on 17.11.2004
Optional Protocol: Yes
Art. 20 (Confidential inquiry): No
Art. 22 (Individual communications): No

State report: Due on 31.05.2017 (2nd)
Last concluding observations: 18.06.2013

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

CED: Ratified on 03.10.2012
Art. 33 (Inquiry procedure): Yes

State report: Overdue since 03.11.2014
Last concluding observations: N/A

Universal Periodic Review (UPR)

Last review: 11.2010 (1st cycle)
Next review: 2015 (2nd cycle)

National Human Rights Institution (NHRI)

Commission Nationale des Droits de l'Homme (CNDH) – Status A

Last review: 05.2011
Next review: 2016

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