Your Excellency,

We write concerning the situation of Mr Haitham Al Maleh whose state of health is seriously deteriorating after more than 6 months in detention. Mr Al Maleh is 78 years old and has worked his entire life defending justice and the rights of all Syrians.

Information regarding the nine prisoners is as follows:

Alkarama alerted the Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) on 12 April 2010 requesting its urgent intervention with the Egyptian authorities.

Alkarama sent an urgent appeal to the Working Group on Enforced Disappearances (WGEID) on 8 April 2010 requesting their intervention with the Moroccan authorities.

Hammam Mohamed Al-Dobii, 18, was abducted on 22 March 2010 in Noukm district of Sana'a by masked gunmen in dress is civilian clothing. Three vehicles stopped in front his store and immediately arrested. Before reappearing inside Sana'a Political Security prison he had been missing for more than two weeks and is now detained without charge.

Thursday 8 April 2010 marked the first public hearing in Haitham Al-Maleh's trial, case number 339/2010 of the Damascus Criminal Military Court, however proceedings were po

Omar Al-Utaibi was arrested at an Iraqi-American military checkpoint in Al-Falouja on 31 January 2004 and has since disappeared. The Iraqi authorities denied holding him.