Press Releases

British courts rule Qaddafi untrustworthy torturer

LBY - News | 27 May 2007

Good news for human rights activists and victims of abuses in the Arab world, especially those living in Britain: the British courts have ruled today that it is not possible to hand over Libyan nationals to the Libyan government, due to its being a government that not only has a horrifying human rights record but also lacks any credibility, whose leader, Qaddafi, cannot be trusted.  This judgement is a severe blow to the British Prime Minister and the extremists in the British government who had relied on the memoranda of understanding that they had signed with Arab regimes, in particular with Algeria, Libya, and Jordan, allowing them, in the name of “the war or terror”, to hand over opposition members to the regimes of these states.

Saudi Arabia: Walid Ali Ahmed Lamri arrested after documenting human rights violations

KSA - News | 30 April 2007
Alkarama for Human Rights has asked the Special Representative of the Secretary General on the situation of human rights defenders to intervene in the case of Walid Ali Ahmed Lamri, a Saudi human rights defender and a member of Alkarama.

Saudi Arabia: Al Rashoudi arrested along with 8 others during reformers meeting

KSA - News | 21 February 2007
Alkarama for Human Rights has just submitted the case of Sulaiman Ibrahim Saleh Al Rashoudi to the Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers and Special Representative of the Secretary General on the situation of human rights defenders. Mr Al Rashoud, born in 1935 and living in Riyadh, is a lawyer, activist and human rights defender working on civil liberties in Saudi Arabia. He worked mainly on the defence of prisoners of conscience. He was arrested by the Saudi intelligence services (Mabahith) in Jeddah on 2 February 2007 with 8 other people at one of their homes (see press release of 14 February 2007).

Saudi Arabia: Dr. Al-Hashimi arrested along with and eight other members of the Saudi reform movement

KSA - News | 14 February 2007
Alkarama for Human Rights submitted the cases of Dr. Al-Hashimi and eight other persons known to the Saudi civil society to the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, the Special Rapporteur on Torture, the Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression and the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights while countering terrorism today.
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