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Oman: Alkarama Welcomes UN Experts Call for Immediate Release of Said Jadad

OMN - News | 30 January 2015

Alkarama welcomes the public call for the immediate release of Said Jadad, after several urgent appeals sent to the United Nations Special Procedures.

The public call for release is published below in its original version.

Oman: UN experts call for the immediate release of prominent rights activist, as reprisals continue unchecked

GENEVA (30 January 2015) – A group of United Nations independent experts has urged the Government of Oman to release Said Ali Said Jadad, a prominent human rights defender who has been advocating for democratic reforms in the country and has been repeatedly detained. Mr. Jadad's latest detention took place on 21 January, without an arrest warrant.

Oman: UN Experts Recognise Arbitrary Nature of MP Talib Al Ma'amari's Detention and Call for Immediate Release

OMN - News | 30 January 2015

A year after the two communications – on the arbitrary nature of Omani Parliamentary, Al Ma'amari's arrest and detention – sent by Alkarama in 2013 to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) and the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), both issued their decision stating that Al Ma'amari's detention was arbitrary and his right to freedom of expression violated. They consequently urged the Omani authorities to release him immediately.

Oman: Prominent Human Rights Defender Said Jadad Arrested Again, Demands Justice

OMN - News | 22 January 2015

On 22 January 2015, Alkarama sent an urgent appeal to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) and several other Special Procedures of the Human Rights Council regarding the case of Said Jadad, a 56-year-old prominent Human Rights Defender (HRD) arbitrarily arrested and secretly detained at least four times in the past two years for his peaceful activism for justice and human rights.

Oman: Salalah Human Rights Defender Detained Incommunicado after meeting with UN Special Rapporteur

OMN - News | 15 December 2014

On 11 December 2014, Alkarama sent an urgent appeal to the United Nations' Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, Mr Maina Kiai, as well as the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID), the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) and the Special Rapporteur on Torture (SRT) , regarding the arrest and incommunicado detention of the human rights defender Ali Said Jadad, a 46 year-old Omani citizen.

Oman: Said Jadad, human rights defender, victim of reprisals after his meeting with UN Special Rapporteur

OMN - News | 05 November 2014

On 4 November 2014 Alkarama sent a communication to the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association as well as the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders concerning the case of Said Ali Said Jadad, an Omani human rights defender victim of reprisal by the Omani security services.

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