15 September 2009

Egypt: Reappearance of the two Egyptian teachers who disappeared on 1 September 2009

Alkarama has learned that the two teachers, Ghannam Said Mahmoud and Alaa Issa, who were disappeared by the Egyptian State Security Intelligence from Al-Arish on 1 September 2009, reappeared on 10 September 2009. On the same date, they were detained under an administrative order by the Minister of Interior and transferred to Wadi Natroun Prison #2.



Sources confirm that they were held and tortured at State Security Intelligence headquarters in Al-Arish from 1 to 10 September 2009.

See Alkarama's original urgent communiqué from 8 September 2009 for more information regarding these two cases.

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