07 June 2009

Saudi Arabia: Abdullah Al-Souidani released from incommunicado detention

Alkarama was informed that Abdullah Al-Souidani was released on May 31 2009. The Qatari citizen was stopped at the border between Qatar and Saudi Arabia on 9 May 2009. He was held incommunicado at the Al-Hayr prison without his family being able to reach him. Finally released, he was able to return to Qatar.

Alkarama sought the intervention of the Special Rapporteur on Torture, requesting him to intervene with Saudi authorities. (see 24 May 2009 communiqué

Reminder: 
Mr. Abdullah Mohammed Ali Al-Salem Al-Souidani, born 1974, lives with his family near Ain Khaled in Doha. 

He was arrested on the morning of 9 May 2009 by the Saudi intelligence (Al-Mabahit) at the
Seloua border between Qatar and Saudi Arabia while traveling by car. 

According to information gathered by his family, the officers who arrested him did not present him with a judicial warrant nor did they inform him of the reasons for his arrest. He was then taken to an unknown destination.

After many steps, especially with the Qatari Ministry of Foreign Affairs, his parents 
managed to learn that he was held incommunicado at the Al-Hayr prison near Riyadh.

However, he had no contact with the outside world and the Saudi authorities refused to inform his family about the reasons for his arrest and or his future.

Morocco - HR Instruments

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)

ICCPR: Ratified on 03.05.1979
Optional Protocol: No

Last State report: Overdue since 07.07.2015
Last concluding observations: 01.12.2004

Convention against Torture (CAT)

CAT: Ratified on 21.06.1993
Optional Protocol: Accessed on 24.11.2014
Art. 20 (Confidential inquiry): Yes
Art. 22 (Individual communications): Yes

Last State report: 30.06.2013
Last concluding observations: 21.12.2011

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

CED: Ratified on 14.05.2013
Art. 33 (Inquiry procedure): Yes

State report: Overdue since 14.06.2015
Last concluding observations: N/A

Universal Periodic Review (UPR)

Last review: 05.2012 (2nd cycle)
Next review: -

National Human Rights Institution (NHRI)

Conseil National des Droits de l'Homme (CNDH) – Status A

Last review: 10.2010
Next review: 11.2015