Alkarama has just been officially informed of Opinion N° 13/2008 rendered during the last session of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention regarding the detention of Ali Al Chahri who was arrested on 23 August 2006. Alkarama had seized the UN organ on 11 May 2007.

Alkarama has just been officially informed of Opinion No° 27/2008 rendered during the last session of the UN Working Group of Arbitrary Detention concerning the detention of 26 leaders of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood.

Alkarama for Human Rights has been following events in the Ghazza strip closely from the beginning of the current crisis to try to establish a factual assessment, via our sources, of what is happening on the ground. We are deeply saddened at the ongoing violence in the occupied territory. It fully backs the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the UN Secretary General's calls for an immediate halt to all violence by all parties to the conflict, in order to allow humanitarian assistance to reach the civilian population.