On 23 May 2015, Alkarama sent an urgent appeal to the UN Committee Against Torture (CAT) asking it to urgently intervene with the Morocco authorities so they take interim measures to stop the extradition to Saudi Arabia of Abdul Rahman Alhaj Ali – a Syrian asylum seeker who had fled persecutions in his country in 2014 to take refuge in Morocco with his wife and his children – based on a 2007 arrest warrant which had already been executed and is no longer justified.

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