Following the ceremony, as student began to leave the university grounds, a taskforce of central security agents, intelligence officers and State Security Investigative (SSI) services suddenly attacked and arrested a group of students including a number of female students.

Reliable sources have confirmed that Nayef Bin Ghanim Al-Attiyah was arrested by the Qatari intelligence services following the arrest of his cousin Fawaz Al-Attiyah, who is a British national. Alkarama's source has confirmed that Nayef Al-Attiyah was arrested after he raised a case against the Qatari Prime Minister before a Qatari Court on behalf of his cousin Fawaz Al-Attiyah.

In September 2008, the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD), a group of independent experts mandated by the Human Rights Council to investigate situations of people detained illegally, adopted Opinion 27/2008 regarding the case of Khirat Al-Shatar and 26 other individuals detained in Egypt. The Working Group found their detention to be arbitrary and called on the Egyptian Government to release all those still in detention.

1. Sheikh Abdul Fattah Farag - Bila Center
2. Sheikh Abdul Muqtadir Abdul Karim Abdul Muqtadir - Al-Nitaq village
3. Sheikh Abdullah Hammad - Al-Kafr Al-Jadid

This is not the first time Hamdi Taha has been arrested.

As part of a seminar on "Human Rights in the Arab world", during the Human Rights Council's 13th session held at the Palais des Nations, Alkarama presented its annual report 2009.

On 22 March 2010, Alkarama submitted Otman Babi's case as an urgent appeal to the Working Group on Enforced Disappearances (WGEID) requesting its intervention with the Moroccan authorities.

Last Friday, 19 March 2010, Alkarama met with Iyas Maleh, son of Haithem Al-Maleh, the 78 year-old Syrian lawyer and human rights defender who was abducted by the Syrian authorities on 14 October 2009 and then brought before a military court. Haithem Al-Maleh faces a possible sentence of up to 15 years, in a court which violates many of the guarantees to a fair trial.

On 5 March 2010, Alkarama had called for the intervention of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD), in protest of his continued detention without trial since 19 April 2009, most likely for political reasons.