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Alkarama submitted his case to the Working Group on Enforced Disappearances on 14 June 2010, requesting its intervention with the Yemeni authorities, in order that Abdelhamid Al-Jaishi either be released or put under the authority provided by the law.

Ibrahim Moujahid was arrested on 8 March 2010 by security agents at the Kwaisna Institute of Art, while carrying posters in support of Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem. Security agents took them to their office where he was severely beaten all over his body.

On 11 June 2010 Alkarama sent an urgent appeal to the Special Rapporteur against Torture requesting his intervention with the Saudi authorities for Abdullah Hassan's release.

At noon hour on Saturday 5 June 2010, Special Forces of the Iraqi army, accompanied by plainclothes security officers, driving civilian vehicles, carried out house raids on eight civilian homes in Al-Adhamiya. Security forces were looking for explosive devices in a local cemetery.

The story goes back to events in March 2004 in Qamishli, a northern Syrian city, when Syrian security forces used excessive force against men of Kurdish origin, resulting in several dead and a number of wounded.

On 9 June 2010 Human Rights Council (HRC) adopted the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group's report (A/HRC/14/2) on Qatar. The review previously took place on 8 February 2010 during the UPR's seventh session. State party representatives had the opportunity to present their recommendations, which were later documented in the report, while their views and commitments of Qatar to the protection of human rights were also put forth.

Nasser Al-Hajiri, arrested on16 December 2007 during his pilgrimage to Mecca, has been detained for more than two and a half years without charge or trial despite being afflicted by a worsening cancer in the form of a brain tumour.