On 8 September 2015, Alkarama sent a communication to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions (SR SUMX) regarding the case of 27 members of a same family killed by an air strike launched by the Saudi-led coalition on Yemen in May 2015.

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On 8 September, Alkarama sent an urgent appeal to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) regarding the case of Waleed Al Dod Al Mekki Al Hussain, a Sudanese national who has been deprived of his fundamental rights since his arrest by the Saudi General Intelligence forces on 23 July 2015. His family suspects that Al Hussain was arrested because of his activity as founder and editor of the Sudanese government critical online news site Al Rakoba and fears that he will be extradited or expelled to Sudan where he would face further persecution, torture and execution after an unfair trial.

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On 27 July 2015, Alkarama provided the United Nations Committee against Torture (CAT) – a body of 10 independent experts that monitors implementation of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (UNCAT) by its State parties – with a list of 72 issues to be raised by the UN experts with the Saudi authorities during their consideration of Saudi Arabia's second review, which will take place during the CAT's 57th session in 2016. In its submission, Alkarama recalled that Saudi Arabia is a monarchy without a formal Constitution or a criminal code. All State powers are concentrated in the executive, especially in the King. Alkarama is particularly concerned with the numerous cases of torture that it continues to receive, especially in view of the overly repressive and broad counter-terrorism law adopted in January 2014, which has increased the practice of extracting confessions under torture in national security related cases.

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On 12 June 2015, Raif Badawi's 1,000 lashes corporal punishment was not carried out, officially for medical reasons, but it could resume at any moment every Friday. The blogger and human rights defender is still arbitrarily detained, a situation that could last for up to 10 years, since his prison sentence was also confirmed by the Supreme Court of Riyadh on 7 June 2015.

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Alkarama sent a second urgent appeal to the Chairperson-Rapporteur of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) concerning the upcoming hearing of Mr Abdulaziz Al Shabili, a Saudi Human Rights Defender (HRD) awaiting prosecution by the Specialised Court on Terrorism and facing over 10 years in arbitrary detention for "incitement to demonstrate" and "insulting Saudi authorities by describing them as a police State which violates human rights." This case underscores the worsening restrictions on freedom of expression in Saudi Arabia and the conditions under which human rights associations in the country are operating.

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