Alkarama renewed its action towards the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention on May 24, 2008 in the case of Mr. Tallal Al Majed, Saudi national, arrested on June 20, 2002 in Qatar and deported to Saudi Arabia where he is since then detained arbitrarily.
Alkarama had sent an urgent communication to the Working Group on May 8, 2006, another one to the Special Rapporteur on Torture on November 17, 2006 and a third to the High Commissioner for Human Rights on March 5, 2007.
Alkarama asked, on May 8, 2008, the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention to intervene in the case of Mr. Samara, arbitrarily detained since July 17, 2007.
Mr. Marwan Abdel Rahman Ahmad SAMARA, Palestinian citizen, was born in 1984 and lives in Riyadh. He is married and father of a baby girl.
Alkarama just learned that Fouad Al Farhan, who was arrested on December 10, 2007 and held incommunicado for nearly a month, was released on 26 April 2008.
Alkarama and the Arab Commission on Human Rights have sent a communication to the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and the Special Rapporteur on Torture to ask them to intervene in the case of Mahmoud Hozbor, detained since 03 July 2003 in Saudi Arabia in a secret location and without due process of law.
Mr. Mahmoud Badr HOZBOR, (محمود بدر هزبر) was born in 1972 in Syria, the country of his nationality, in Al Ghoutah Al Sharquia, Village Dir Al Asafir in Damascus.
