The Geneva-based Alkarama Foundation and the Union of Muslim Human Rights Activists in Lebanon addressed a detailed communication to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention regarding the arbitrary detention of 92 detainees held in Roumieh prison during the past three years.

The men were arrested on suspicion of involvement in the events which took place between May and September 2007 at the Nahr Al-Bared refugee camp, located in northern Lebanon some 20km from Tripoli.

On 3 March 2010, 20-year-old Thamer Alkhodr was arrested by security agents. At the time of his arrest, he was not shown a warrant nor was he charged. He would spend his first two days in secret detention. Following his arrest, the agents searched his home without a warrant - confiscating some of his personal belongings including two computers belonging to his father.

On 3 November 1986, the corpse of a Hassan Mohamed Abou Naama was found in a well on a plot of farming land belonging to Mr Hmeed.

At 15 o'clock Egyptian time, Military Police accompanied by unidentified men in civilian clothes entered the offices of the Hisham Mubarak Law Center in Souk Al Tawfiqia street, Cairo, and arrested more than 20 members of Egyptian and international NGOs. These people were members of the Committee for the Defense of the Egypt Protesters. As they were arrested they were beaten by the men taking them away, and their phones and other office equipment was confiscated.

Those arrested include: