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On 10 May 2010,Palestinian authorities released human rights activist, Muhannad Salahat without charge. His release comes in the wake of his secret/incommunicado detention, during which he threatened and subjected to tortured, which eventually ended in an investigation of the Palestinian Human Rights Foundation (Monitor), a human rights organisation that investigates human rights violations in Palestinian Occupied Territories, for whom he is a representative in Jordan.

Samir Afif Ammar was sitting in a small café in Deir Al-Zor, a city in northeastern Syria on the Euphrates, when a man he had never met named "Abu Omar" sparked a conversation. Abu Omar said he could give him work in an Iraqi oil field and he promised him a good salary. It was January 2009, and Abu Omar would soon thereafter smuggle a then 19 year-old Samir across the border to Iraq. Samir spent two weeks in Iraq, and as recounts, "I can't remember the rest."
Walid Al-Kainai was arrested on 15 March 2005 in Ta'izz by local Political Security forces. In the last five years, he has been imprisoned in various locations and has never been on trial.

On 12 May 2010, Alkarama sent his case to the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention requesting their intervention on behalf of the Yemeni authorities, in order for the Yemeni authorities either release Walid Al-Kainai or at least put him on trial.

On 2 May 2010, Qatari authorities released Nayef Al-Attiyah. He was previously arrested on 4 September 2009 in order to intimidate his cousin Fawaz Al-Attiyah, a British national, who had asked Nayef Al-Attiyah to raise his case with the Prime Minister of Qatar.

Nayef Al-Attiyah was released without ever being subject to any legal proceedings during his detention. Alkarama's sources have confirmed that the entire episode was simply an attempt to settle a personal score.

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Disappeared since 5 November 2009, Ahmed Mustafa Ben Mohamed, aka Pir Rostom, a Syrian Kurdish political a
On 1 May 2010, two engineering students, Mohamed Boutarfas, 22, and Zouhair Benkassou, 23, were abducted from their homes by plain clothed intelligence officers in Rabat and taken to an unknown destination. They are now disappeared and it is feared that they are held incommunicado and exposed to torture.

Alkarama sent their case to the Special Rapporteur against Torture on 7 May 2010, requesting his intervention with the Moroccan authorities to ensure that both men are put under the protection of the law.

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Muhannad Al-Hassani, a longstanding Syrian human rights defender and lawyer has been awarded the Martin Ennals Award (MEA) laureate for 2010 - the prize to be presented on 15 October 2010 in Geneva.
Over the past several weeks, the Moroccan authorities have been carrying out a strategy of enforced disappearances, which continues to claims victims as the waves of arrests persists. Condemnation from the UN and human rights NGOs has done little to impede the Moroccan authorities.

Mahmi Maliani, a 22 year-old Engineering student from Casablanca, was abducted on the morning of 19 March 2010 by security services officers while on his way to the local mosque for Friday prayers and has since disappeared. Numerous bystanders witnessed his kidnapping.

 Muhannad Salahat, a 29 year old human rights defender from Palestine, was disappeared by the Palestinian Authority Intelligence services in Nablus last Saturday, 1 May 2010. Since 2007, Muhannad has been working with the Palestinian Human Rights Foundation (Monitor) exposing human rights violations and the deteriorating humanitarian and security situation in the West Bank and Jordan. He has been repeatedly harassed, slandered and detained by the Palestinian Authorities' security forces without ever been charged or tried for any crimes.

Alkarama continues to receive reports of deaths inside Egyptian detention centers as a result of torture. The latest case of Tamer Mohamed Al-Baz'amara is no exception. The growth of this phenomenon is coupled with a lack of accountability and due process in investigating these violations.

Tamer Mohamed Al-Baz'amara, 20, was arrested in August 2009 and sentenced by a military court to two years imprisonment and hard labor for evading his military service.

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