Alkarama Foundation
03.03.2015 La rédaction
Alkarama was established in July 2004 by Abdul Rahman Al-Naimi, Rachid Mesli and Abbas Aroua, with the objective of defending the Arab regime victims and victims of fight against terrorism before the UN Human Rights Council.
However, reality is quite different for the US administration:
“Al-Naimi is a terrorism financier established in Qatar. He has been providing funds and material support to Al-Qaeda in Syria, Iraq, Somalia and Yemen for the past ten years. (Together with Humayqani), he is at the heart of a network supporting and funding terrorism. “
In order to start the organization in 2007, the leaders sought the assistance of Mourad Dhina. At that time, the latter had just given up on militancy within the Islamic Salvation Front (Algeria FIS), which then appeared to him as “less active”. Several years earlier, Dhina had also been a member of the Islamic Front for Jihad (Fida), an organization responsible for killing hundreds of journalists, intellectuals, trade unionists and Algerian political figures.
A resident of Switzerland, Dhina was arrested on 16 January 2012 at the Orly airport, where he had just arrived to deliver his version of the 1992 coup. He was the subject of an international arrest warrant issued in 2003 by the Algerian authorities, accusing him of “committing terrorist acts in Zurich, Switzerland, between 1997 and 1999 “. Following a considerable support campaign led by the “Indigènes de la République” movement, and thanks to his defense lawyer, Antoine Comte, Dhina was not extradited to Algeria, but nevertheless spent six months in la Prison de la Santé in Paris.
In 2007, Alkarama began working with the United Nations treaty monitoring bodies, specifically with the UN Committee against Torture (CAT), the Human Rights Commission (EHRC), and the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), developed by the newly created Human Rights Council (HRC), by relaying alternative information relating to the implementation, by the Arab States, of various relevant treaties, at each stage of their review process. In this context, Alkarama provided CAT/ EHRC experts as well as HRC members with access to civil society information along with real-life cases of violations of several articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Convention against Torture and the Universal Charter on Civil and Political Rights.
Starting 2009, Alkarama launched an award for Human Rights defenders, which was mainly awarded to Islamic militants and their supporters. One of the most ambiguous beneficiaries of the award is AbdulElah Shyea, an admirer Al-Qaeda attacks in Europe.
According to the site Algerie Patriotique, Alkarama Foundation is funding three satellite TV channels “aimed at overthrowing the political regime in Algeria.” These channels are allegedly Al-Magharibia (managed by the son of Abassi Madani, who also owns a Qatari solar company), Al-Rachad (belonging to Rachad organization, which is managed by Mourad Dhina) and Al-Asr. Alkarama, which is self-funded according to its leaders including Qatari Al-Naimi, has spent, always according to Ennahar, more than one million Swiss francs in 2011 on what it is described as “humanitarian work”. It all suggests that the Islamic Salvation Front remaining members persist and consistently try to destabilize Algeria.
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