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Disappeared since 5 November 2009, Ahmed Mustafa Ben Mohamed, aka Pir Rostom, a Syrian Kurdish political a
On 1 May 2010, two engineering students, Mohamed Boutarfas, 22, and Zouhair Benkassou, 23, were abducted from their homes by plain clothed intelligence officers in Rabat and taken to an unknown destination. They are now disappeared and it is feared that they are held incommunicado and exposed to torture.

Alkarama sent their case to the Special Rapporteur against Torture on 7 May 2010, requesting his intervention with the Moroccan authorities to ensure that both men are put under the protection of the law.

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Muhannad Al-Hassani, a longstanding Syrian human rights defender and lawyer has been awarded the Martin Ennals Award (MEA) laureate for 2010 - the prize to be presented on 15 October 2010 in Geneva.
Over the past several weeks, the Moroccan authorities have been carrying out a strategy of enforced disappearances, which continues to claims victims as the waves of arrests persists. Condemnation from the UN and human rights NGOs has done little to impede the Moroccan authorities.

Mahmi Maliani, a 22 year-old Engineering student from Casablanca, was abducted on the morning of 19 March 2010 by security services officers while on his way to the local mosque for Friday prayers and has since disappeared. Numerous bystanders witnessed his kidnapping.

 Muhannad Salahat, a 29 year old human rights defender from Palestine, was disappeared by the Palestinian Authority Intelligence services in Nablus last Saturday, 1 May 2010. Since 2007, Muhannad has been working with the Palestinian Human Rights Foundation (Monitor) exposing human rights violations and the deteriorating humanitarian and security situation in the West Bank and Jordan. He has been repeatedly harassed, slandered and detained by the Palestinian Authorities' security forces without ever been charged or tried for any crimes.

Alkarama continues to receive reports of deaths inside Egyptian detention centers as a result of torture. The latest case of Tamer Mohamed Al-Baz'amara is no exception. The growth of this phenomenon is coupled with a lack of accountability and due process in investigating these violations.

Tamer Mohamed Al-Baz'amara, 20, was arrested in August 2009 and sentenced by a military court to two years imprisonment and hard labor for evading his military service.

Khalid Etefia, who lives in France, was arrested by the Moroccan authorities on 8 February 2010 after arriving in Morocco, where he had planned to visit his wife Doha Aboutabit who has been detained since 3 December 2009. Both are currently held inside Salé prison.

At 3am on 8 February 2010, Khalid Etefia was arrested in his hotel room in Rabat. On the same day, he was brought before the investigating judge of Rabat's Court of Appeals and sent to Salé prison. The couple, although detained inside the same prison, has been unable to see each other.

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Abdul Abdul Hafiez Rahman, writer and human rights defender, was arrested on 2 March 2010 at his home by military intelligence agents in the presence of his family. He has disappeared since. He was arrested along with his colleague, Nadera Abdou , who works with him at "MAF", the Syrian Human Rights Organisation.
Ibrahim Mujahid was arrested on 8 March 2010 by security guards of Kwaisna Art Institute while he was putting up posters written by students in support the Al-Aqsa mosque (in Jerusalem). The guards led him to their office where they tied him up and severely beat him all over his body.

On 28 April 2010, Alkarama sent his case to the Special Rapporteur on Torture, requesting that the Egyptian authorities conduct a full and impartial investigation into the acts of torture suffered by Ibrahim Mujahid, to establish who is responsible in order punish the perpetrators.

On 29 March 2009, Mohamed El Sanussi Mahmoud was arrested by police officers in Cairo. He was taken to Shobra Al-Khayma police station where he was held without charge for six months and subjected to repeated bouts of torture.

On 27 April 2010, Alkarama sent his case to the Special Rapporteur on Torture requesting an investigation by the Egyptian authorities into the alleged torture, in order to determine who was responsibile and bring the perpetrators to justice.

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