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EGY - News

Egypt: Muslim Brotherhood members arrested after call for election candidacy

EGY - News | 22 October 2010

Alkarama is following with increased concern the raids and arrests being made by the Egyptian security apparatus against the opposition Muslim Brotherhood group, in the wake of its recent announcement that it will participate in the coming parliamentary elections.

Egypt – Khairat Al Shatar and co-detainees released

EGY - News | 04 March 2011
Yesterday, 3 March 2011, Mohamed Khairat Al Shatar, the 60 year old businessman and leading figure in the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, was released from Tora Prison in Cairo. He had been sentenced to 7 years in prison in a grossly unfair trial before Cairo's Military court.

Egypt: 43 Alkarama cases raised in Committee against Torture List of Issues

EGY - News | 25 February 2011
Alkarama commends the fact that a number of its most serious cases were raised in the Committee against Torture's List of Issues on Egypt.

Egypt: 303 confirmed deaths since 25 January uprising

EGY - News | 21 February 2011
Alkarama has collected precise details regarding the deaths of 303 people during the recent protests in Egypt. These deaths were a result of the use of excessive force by members of the security forces and armed civilians instructed by the authorities to use force against pro-democracy demonstrators.

Egypt: Local and international human rights defenders beaten and arrested

EGY - News | 03 February 2011
At 3 pm, members of military police and unidentified men in civilian clothes entered the offices of the Hisham Mubarak Lawl Center on Souk Al-Tawfikia street in Cairo. They arrested more than 20 members of local and international NGOs. The individuals in question were members of the Committee for the defence of Egypt's protesters. They were beaten before being taken away. Their phones and other work-related objects were confiscated.

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