In a letter addressed to the Egyptian authorities and published in the recent communications report of special procedures for the 31st session of the Human Rights Council, David Kaye, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the promotion a

Over the last weeks, Alkarama received the testimonies of relatives of four men who disappeared following their arrests at various checkpoints in Syria between July 2012 and May 2015. All the arrests were conducted by members of the Security Services or the Military, who did not present a warrant nor inform the victims of the reasons of their arrest. The four men remain disappeared since.

On 12 January 2016, Asser Mohammed Zahr Aldeen Abdelwarth, a 15-year-old boy, disappeared after the police arrested him at his home in Giza, leading Alkarama to send an urgent appeal to the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID).

On 18 February 2016, 12-year-old student Dima Al-Wawi was sentenced by the Israeli Ofer Court to four and a half months in prison and a fine of 8,000 Shekel (US$ 2,000) for "carrying a knife in her backpack, attempting to kill Israeli settlers and threatening Israel's security." She is currently detained in a prison for women together with other juvenile prisoners and her family is not allowed to visit her.

On 15 February 2016, 55-year-old writer and caricaturist Saeed bin Abdullah Ali Al Daroudi was sentenced by the Omani Court of Appeal to three months in prison for statements he published on his Facebook account on 7 October 2014.

Between late December 2015 and early February 2016, members of the Homeland Security and of the police arrested another three men for no apparent reason. Two young brothers, Abdelmoneim and Abdelrahman Nasr Kotb Mousa and father-of-four Mohammed Gommaa Mahmoud El Safty, have been missing since and their respective families remain unaware of their fates and whereabouts, despite having solicited various official bodies.

On 4 April 2016, 21-year-old Syrian baker Malaz Asaad will have the next hearing of his trial. He is facing terrorism charges, which are based on confessions he made under torture while detained in the Rihanyie military barracks in 2014. In view of these facts, on 25 February 2016, Alkarama sent an urgent appeal to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment (SRT), Juan E.

Alkarama welcomes the release, on 9 February 2016, of Yemeni national Awad Al Hayki, who had been arbitrarily detained in Saudi Arabia for over five years.

On 18 May 2015, 25-year-old Syrian citizen Yarub Al Faraj was arrested by members of the Military Intelligence at a military checkpoint in the Bekaa Valley in eastern Lebanon and taken to the Ablah Military Barrack, where he was tortured and forced to confess to accusations of terrorism, which were later used as the basis for his conviction by the Military Court in December 2015.

Despite documenting an increasing number of cases of enforced disappearances in the hands of all kinds of government forces in the country, the international community has continuously failed to address this issue with the Egyptian government.