Ameen Hamoud Al-Hossaini was arrested at his office on 18 April 2010. Police officers later held him incommunicado for several days at Sana'a's Political Security prison before being transferred to Sana'a's Central prison.

Alkarama sent Ameen Al-Hossaini's case to the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD), requesting their intervention with the Yemeni authorities in order that he be immediately released and subsequently compensated.

May 11 Emergency Law Revisions Mean No Legal Authority to Keep Hundreds of Prisoners

The Egyptian government should keep its promise to free detainees who can no longer be held because of changes on May 11, 2010, in the scope of application for the country's emergency law, a coalition of twelve Egyptian and international human rights organizations said today.

Alkarama has just been informed that both Younes Zarli and Said Ezziouani are being held at Salé prison. While in custody they were held in incommunicado detention and subjected to torture, before ever receiving their indictments.

Alkarama was just been informed that Hazem Al Fakhouri was released on 23 June 2010. The husband of human rights activist Lama Khater, was arrested on 9 May 2010 following a summons by the Palestinian intelligence services.

After a week of incommunicado detention he was brought before the military prosecutor and accused of "resisting the government's general policy. He was remanded in custody.

Hassan Mohamed, 32, a Sudanese refugee living and working in Cairo was arrested by State Security Investigations (SSI) services at his home on 16 January 2010. During his arrest, Hassan Mohamed was not given a judicial warrant nor was he explained the reasons for his arrest. He was held in secret for 55 days, during which he was brutally tortured. Finally on 12 March 2010, he was transferred to a Tora prison, south of Cairo.

On 25 June 1998, Lounès Matoub, one of Algeria's most famous singers was shot dead by a group of unidentified gunmen. Malik Medjnoune, one of those accused of complicity in Matoub's murder, has been in custody since September 1999 without trial. He has always continued to deny any involvement in the murder.

Omar Makhlouf, a 20 year-old student at the American University in Cairo, was arrested on 12 June 2008 by agents of the State Security Investigations (SSI) services held in secret detention for 58 days.

On 11 January 2010 plainclothes Yemeni security agents in Ta'izz arrested Ammar Attayiar and held him at their premises, before transferring him to the criminal investigation's detention center, where he was held incommunicado and severely tortured. He was intended to be released on bail on 4 April 2010, however he has been kept in prison in despite a court decision for his release.