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Syria: Disappearance Ammar Al-Suttof since 1993

SYR - News | 17 June 2009

Mr Ammar Al-Suttof, a nurse and a Syrian national, was mostly likely arrested by Syrian security forces in Beirut in 1993 and has since disappeared.

Syria: Enforced disappearance of eight members of the Kurdish community in Qamishli

SYR - News | 14 May 2009

Between late August and November 2008, Syrian security services arrested eight people in Qamishli, a town in the north-east of Syria. These people have since disappeared. Alkarama submitted a communication to the Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID), asking it to intervene with the Syrian authorities.

Syria: Arbitrary detentions and killings in Sednaya prison

SYR - News | 22 October 2008

Alkarama today submitted to the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention the cases of Messrs Mustapha Kamel Houriya aged 52, Ahmed Abdelkader Kerroum and Youcef Amar Dehnine, both aged 41 years.

Syria - HR Instruments

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)

ICCPR: Accessed on 21.04.1969
Optional Protocol: No

State report: Overdue since 01.08.2009 (4^th)
Last concluding observations: 09.08.2005

Convention against Torture (CAT)

CAT: Accessed on 19.08.2004
Optional Protocol: No
Art. 20 (Confidential inquiry): No
Art. 22 (Individual communications): No

State report: Overdue since 14.05.2014 (2^nd)
Last concluding observations: 29.06.2012

International Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance (CED)

No

Universal Periodic Review (UPR)

Last review: 10.2011 (1^st cycle)
Next review: 2016 (2^nd cycle)

National Human Rights Institution (NHRI)

No