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KWT - News
Kuwait: Kuwait meets Human Rights Committee experts
KWT - News | 28 October 2011
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Kuwait: Chance for Civil Society to Raise Human Rights Violations during Committee Review
KWT - News | 02 September 2011
Civil society has the opportunity to provide information on the human rights situation in Kuwait when the country is examined by the United Nations Human Rights Committee (HRCttee) in October 2011. The Committee will review whether Kuwait is respecting the civil and political rights of its citizens.
Kuwait : Ongoing persecution of former Guantanamo detainees
KWT - News | 26 November 2010
Abdul Aziz Al-Shammari, 37 and a Kuwaiti citizen married with two children, is a former Guantanamo Bay detainee. He was repatriated to Kuwait on 3 November 2005, after which he was put on trial, acquitted by the Kuwaiti Criminal Court, and released in 2006.
Kuwait: Continued harassment of former Guantanamo prisoner, Abd Al-Aziz Sayir Al-Shamri
KWT - News | 05 March 2010
Abd Al-Aziz Sayir Al-Shamri is currently being harassed by Kuwaiti authorities, due to his previous imprisonment at Guantanamo Bay. He was handed over to the American forces by the Pakistani authorities during the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan, and subsequently transferred to Guantanamo Bay prison.
Kuwait: Torture and ill-treatment of Mr. Al-Dhafeery
KWT - News | 04 July 2008
Alkarama sent a communication to the Special Rapporteur on Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, about Mr. Adel Al-Dhafeery who was arrested May 22, 2008 by agents of the Internal Security and transferred in their headquarters where he was brutally tortured.