On 12 May 2012, Shadi Al Mawlawi, a Lebanese national known to support the Syrian opposition as well as Syrian refugees in Lebanon, was arrested in Tripoli. The 25-year-old merchant of office furniture now faces a military trial based on terrorism charges. In view of the seemingly political motivation behind this persecution, Alkarama calls on the Lebanese authorities to respect Mr Al Mawlawi's right to a fair trial.
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On Monday 21 May, the second cycle of the UPR – Universal Periodic Review – will begin at the Human Rights Council in Geneva, with the 13th session of the Human Rights Council Working Group on the UPR. ALkarama contributed four reports for this process – summaries of the human rights situation in Algeria, Bahrain, Morocco and Tunisia.
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For the first time since 1997, the Committee against Torture will review a State outside of its normal reporting obligations, with Syria scheduled to be reviewed by the UN Committee against Torture this week. Syria was last examined two years ago in 2010 and would under normal circumstances have been again reviewed in 2014, according to the four-year periodicity of the review process. However, given the critical situation in Syria, the Committee has decided to resort to this rare precedent that is reserved for the most critical of situations.
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Moaz Al Khatib, a well-known and widely respected Syrian Islamic scholar, was arrested by the Syrian Military Intelligence in Damascus on 27 April 2012. As his family and friends have not heard of him since the day of his arrest, we fear that he might be subjected to ill-treatment and torture.
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On 1 May 2012, Mr Abdulhakim Al Fadhli, a well-known activist for the rights of Bidun (stateless) in Kuwait, was arrested for the third time this year and who is now charged with calling for and participating in demonstrations. Alkarama strongly condemns the persecution of Mr Al Fadhli which clearly violates his right to freedom of expression and of peaceful assembly and is solely based on his commitment to the cause for equal rights of the Bidun in Kuwait.
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After criticising the integrity of officials working for the Palestinian Authority, the Palestinian Human Rights Foundation (Rased) and its members experienced growing harassment, which climaxed in the ordered closure of Rased's offices in Ramallah, Palestine, on 12 April 2012. Alkarama strongly condemns this obstruction of the organisation's work as a reprisal for their criticism of government officials.
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Rachid Niny, editor of Al Massae, one of the most important Moroccan Arabic newspapers, left the prison of Akkacha (Casablanca) on 28 April 2012 around three in the morning, after serving his sentence of one year's imprisonment.
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Today, Alkarama informed the United Nations Special Procedures that Mr Yacoub Shamoun, a Syrian national aged 48, was finally released on 14 March 2012, after almost 27 years of arbitrary detention.
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Today, Alkarama submitted the case of a young Yemeni citizen, Mr Abbad Ahmed Sameer, to the United Nations Special Procedures. Abbad Ahmed Sameer was arbitrarily arrested on 11 November 2010 and is currently detained at Sana'a Political Security Prison. He has been held without having been officially charged nor presented to a judge, which makes his detention unlawful under international and domestic law.
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