Alkarama for Human Rights, 3 July 2007

 Alkarama for Human Rights has written to the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention to inform it of 14 cases of arbitrary detention and ask it to intervene with the Egyptian government, which ratified the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights on 14 January 1982 and the Convention against Torture on 25 June 1986.

Alkarama for Human Rights has received the following urgent report of a probable violation of freedom of speech:

New York, July 5, 2007—The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply troubled by vague terrorism charges brought on Wednesday against the editor of an opposition news Web site. A state security court charged Abdel Karim al-Khaiwani, former editor of the online newspaper Al-Shoura, which is affiliated with the Popular Forces Union Party, with conspiring with antigovernment rebels.

Alkarama for Human Rights, 3 July 2007

Alkarama for Human Rights has sent a letter to the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ms. Louise Arbour, asking her to intervene urgently in the case of Dr. bin Zair. (See also the communiqué of 9 June 2007.)

Dr. Said bin Mubarak bin Zair was arrested on 6 June 2007 at the entrance to Riyadh as he drove back from Mecca with his son Mubarak bin Zair. He is currently being detained without trial at Al-Alisha prison near Riyadh.