On 25 October 2010 Alkarama sent an urgent appeal to the Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) requesting it to intervene with the Moroccan authorities in order that Mr Akhdife be released or have placed under legal protection.

Alkarama is following with increased concern the raids and arrests being made by the Egyptian security apparatus against the opposition Muslim Brotherhood group, in the wake of its recent announcement that it will participate in the coming parliamentary elections.
The Egyptian security apparatus has launched an extensive campaign against the Muslim Brotherhood, the ruling party's chief domestic rival, following its announcement that it intended to field candidates in the coming parliamentary elections in 30% of seats.

Kadar Saado, a 32-year-old Syrian Kurd and IT expert is believed to have been arrested due to his relationship with Munzer Oscan, who was abducted in 2008 and held incommunicado for almost a year.

Alkarama today submitted the case of Mr Mohamed Aouda to the Special Rapporteur on Torture and the Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances.

The group are all members of the Muslim Brotherhood, a banned opposition group in Egypt. Early this month they were involved in a peaceful sit-in to protest the physical molestation and beating of a female student by Al-Azhar University security guards in Zagazig. She would later suffer from internal bleeding.

The seven students have since been arrested, and are currently in police custody in Zagazig.

12 October, 2010 - Geneva, Switzerland - Haithem Al-Maleh (هيثم المالح), prominent Syrian human rights defender and lawyer, will be the recipient of the Alkarama Award 2010 for Human Rights Defenders. The award will be presented on 10 December 2010 at the annual Alkarama Award for Human Rights Defenders, which will take place at the International Conference Centre (www.cicg.ch) in Geneva, Switzerland.