Families of prisoners held in Saudi Arabian prisons without charge or trial gathered outside Saudi embassies across Europe and the Middle East today, protesting long-standing and continuing abuses of human rights.

On 26 November 2010 Alkarama addressed the Special Rapporteur on Torture requesting his intervention with the Moroccan authorities for instigate an investigation into the incident.

Abdul Aziz Al-Shammari, 37 and a Kuwaiti citizen married with two children, is a former Guantanamo Bay detainee. He was repatriated to Kuwait on 3 November 2005, after which he was put on trial, acquitted by the Kuwaiti Criminal Court, and released in 2006.

On 4 November 2010 Alkarama sent his case to the Working group on enforced and involuntary disappearances (WGEID), requesting its urgent intervention with the Algerian authorities.

Rachid Kebli, 30, is a manual worker from Wilaya de Tlemcen. He was disappeared by four plain clothed intelligence officers, as he was working on a construction-site in Maghnia, Wilaya de Tlemcen at 11:00am on 18 October 2010.

In March 2002 he was arrested in Pakistan, handed over to the American authorities, who then transferred him to the Moroccan authorities. After one year of secret detention he was released without charge. On his way back to Italy from Morocco, he was once again arrested - this time sentenced to 15 years on the basis of confessions extracted under torture.

(Geneva, November 19, 2010) - Recently obtained documents show that Libya's security chief blocked an investigation into the death in detention in 2006 of a man being held under questionable circumstances, the human rights groups Alkarama, TRIAL (Track Impunity Always), and Human Rights Watch said today.

On 17 November 2010 Alkarama sent an urgent appeal to the Working Group on enforced and involuntary disappearances (WGEID), requesting their intervention with Moroccan authorities, so that the three men are freed immediately or at least given adequate legal protection.

On 5 November 2010 Alkarama sent an urgent appeal to the Working Group on Enforced or involuntary Disappearances (WGEID), requesting it to intervene with the Algerian authorities on behalf of Mr Abdellahoum.

On 9 november 2010 Alkarama sent their cases to the UN Human Rights Special Procedure requesting its intervention with Yemeni authorities so the victims may be released or placed under protection by the law.

The following details on the victims were provided in the communiqué: