On 15 October 2015, Alkarama sent a communication to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) regarding the case of 29-year-old journalist Mohamed Salahaddin Madani Mahmoud, arrested in March 2014, secretly detained and tortured in the aim of making him confess to crimes, and referred to the Alexandria Military Court that sentenced him to 7 years in prison.

On 13 October 2015, Alkarama and Al Wissam Humanitarian Assembly sent a communication to the United Nations Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED) regarding the case of 68-year-old farmer Tamer Al Aqidi, disappeared since his arrest by members of the Federal Police in August 2014.

On 25 September 2015, the Human Rights Council (HRC) adopted the outcome report of Libya's second Universal Periodic Review (UPR) held at the Palais des Nations in Geneva in May.

On 12 October 2015, Alkarama and Al Wissam Humanitarian Assembly sent a communication to the United Nations Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED) regarding the case of three men who disappeared following their respective arrests at their homes in the Doha neighbourhood in southern Baghdad between May and June 2014.

Circumstances of the arrests and disappearances

During its ninth session that was held from 7-18 September 2015, the Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED) adopted a list of 25 questions that will be discussed during the initial review of Tunisia by the Committee in March 2016.

On 9 October 2015, Alkarama submitted to the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism (SR TERROR), a communication calling him to intervene in the case of Ali Attar, arbitrarily detained since his arrest without judicial warrant in February 2015. For the first 12 days of his arrest, Ali was a victim of torture and ill-treatment while detained incommunicado.

On 9 October 2015, Alkarama sent an urgent appeal to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) on the case of Layal al-Kayaje, detained since her summon for investigation by the Lebanese Military Intelligence in Saida, on 21 September 2015, shortly after she denounced having been tortured and raped by military officers during her detention in 2013.

On 8 October 2015, Alkarama sent a communication to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) regarding the detention of three brothers aged between 17 and 28 arbitrarily detained since their respective arrests on 14 and 15 April 2014. Tortured on several occasions and accused under trumped-up charges, the three brothers were sentenced in absentia by Mansoura Criminal Court on 19 January 2015.

Alkarama welcomes the selection, on 6 October 2015, of Emirati human rights defender Ahmed Mansoor as laureate of the 2015 Martin Ennals Award in recognition of his work providing credible and independent assessment of the human rights situation in the country.

On 30 September 2015, Alkarama referred to the UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression (FREEDEX) the case of Hicham Mansouri, a 35-year-old journalist arrested on 17 March 2015 and sentenced to 10 months in prison for "complicity of adultery".