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On the evening of 31 March 2010, Lebanese authorities released Fadi Sabunah after nearly two years arbitrary detention. The investigative judge responsible for case related to the events that occurred in the Nahr Al-Bared refugee camp in 2008. During his 18 month detention, Fadi Sabunah was detained incommunicado and tortured for 35 consecutive days. He was then subsequently interrogated and tried by both civilian and military judges.
On 30 March 2010, 21 year-old Abdelrahim Lahjouli, a resident of Casablanca, was abducted from his home by anonymous gang of six individuals who presented themselves as police officers. Following his abduction he was taken to an unknown destination and has since disappeared.

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

Alkarama has just learned that Hammam Al-Dobii, previously abducted on 22 March 2010, has reappeared inside Sana'a Political Security prison. Following his abduction he was to an unknown destination.

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.

Today, 9 April 2010, the Justice Council Court concluded the trials of Mustafa Sayw and Kamal Al-Na'san; two of four persons whose cases Alkarama brought to the attention of the Special Rapporteur on Torture on 27 October 2009. It is feared that confessions extracted under torture were used against them in the trial.
HaithamAl-Maleh

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 pos

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.

On 30 March 2010, as a Munufeya University graduation service came to a close, Egyptian Security Services arrested 11 students outside the gates of the university's Faculty of Electronic Engineering. Thousands of students were attending the service.

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.

Mohamed Hammam Al-Dobii was abducted on 23 March 2010 in Sanaa by plain clothed Intelligence Services officers. He was arrested without a warrant and taken to an unknown destination.

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.

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