Press Releases - Alkarama Foundation

Press Releases

United Arab Emirates: arbitrary arrest and detention of Mr. Hassan Al-Diqqi, defender of human rights

UAE - News | 31 July 2008

Alkarama submitted, on July 29th 2008, a communication to the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, as well as to the Special Representative for Defenders of Human Rights and the Special Rapporteur on freedom of expression regarding Mr. Hassan Al-Diqqi, a human rights defender, currently being held at the central prison of Sharjah.

Mauritania: Incommunicado detention, torture and risk of forcible return to Tunisia of Mr. Abdelkrim Bouraoui

MRT - News | 24 July 2008

Alkarama wrote a communication on 22 July 2008 to the Special Rapporteur on Torture concerning Mr. Bouraoui, a Tunisian national, arrested on 3 May 2008 at Nouakchott. He was detained incommunicado for 25 days and severely tortured. He was then taken to a military barracks of the army headquarters, where he is still detained.

Saudi Arabia: a sign of life from Mr. Mahmoud Hozbor, detained incommunicado.

KSA - News | 21 July 2008

Alkarama has learned that Mr. Mahmoud Hozbor, detained since 03 July 2003 in Saudi Arabia in a secret location and without legal procedure, telephoned his wife on June 20, 2008, for the first time in several years, informing her that he was detained at the prison of Al-Qasim, where he was transferred 4 months ago and where he is held in a solitary cell.

Saudi Arabia: Arbitrary detention since 2004 of the engaged poet Saleh Al Hweiti

KSA - News | 18 July 2008

Alkarama for Human Rights sent a communication to the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) asking it to intervene in the case of Mr. Saleh Al Hweiti, engaged poet, arbitrarily detained since October 27, 2004.

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United Arab Emirates: arbitrary arrest and detention of Mr. Hassan Al-Diqqi, defender of human rights

Mauritania: Incommunicado detention, torture and risk of forcible return to Tunisia of Mr. Abdelkrim Bouraoui

Saudi Arabia: a sign of life from Mr. Mahmoud Hozbor, detained incommunicado.

Saudi Arabia: Arbitrary detention since 2004 of the engaged poet Saleh Al Hweiti

Saudi Arabia: M. Abdulrahim Al-Murbati, a native of Bahrain, missing since June 06, 2008

Libya: Abdussalam Il-Khwildy's case before the Human Rights Committee

Kuwait: Torture and ill-treatment of Mr. Al-Dhafeery

Yemen: The Working Group of the United Nations finds that the detention of Mr. Al Chouiter was arbitrary

Algeria: enforced disappearance of Adel Saker

United Arab Emirates: The UN Working Group condemns the detention of Mr. Abdullah Al-Alili