On 11 July 2016, Alkarama and Human Rights Guardians wrote to the United Nations Working Group on Enforced Disappearances (WGEID) regarding the cases of five Syrian citizens from the village of Kafr al-Tun who disappeared in the Governorate of Hama in western central Syria between 2012 and 2014.

On 13 June 2016, Amjad Qourshah, 48-year old assistant professor in comparative religions at the University of Jordan and famous presenter in TV and radio shows, was arrested for "disturbing relations with a foreign country" for having posted a video online about two years ago criticising the participation of Jordan to the international coalition led by the USA against the Islamic State (IS).

On 12 May 2016, Salih Al Dulaimi, professor at the Electrical Engineering Department of the College of Engineering, University of Anbar, was sentenced to death on the basis of Iraq Antiterrorism Law by the Iraqi Central Criminal Court, the judge relying on statements Al Dulaimi made under heavy torture and alleged information provided by the US intelligence.

In view of Kuwait's third periodic review, on 4 July 2016, Alkarama submitted its shadow report to the UN Committee Against Torture (CAT) analysing the legal framework for the prohibition of torture and its practice in Kuwait.

On 15 July 2016, Alkarama referred to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) the case of Omar Mabrouk, a young student currently detained in Giza, Cairo, and facing an unfair trial. Held in incommunicado detention since his unlawful extradition from Kuwait to Egypt in October 2015 and until April 2016, he was severely tortured to confess crimes he never committed.

On 8 July 2016, Alkarama referred to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health (SRH) the case of Mahmoud Hassan Sabry, who was arrested on 29 July 2015 in Cairo by Egyptian Homeland Security Forces and thrown from his apartment's balcony for allegedly having participated to "violent demonstrations", causing him severe body injuries and a partial paralysis.

On Monday 4 July 2016, a day after the two deadly Baghdad bombings, the Iraqi Ministry of Justice announced the implementation of death sentences against five convicts on death row, upon request of the Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi. New death sentences are soon to be announced said the Ministry of Justice, affirming that it would continue "to deliver just punishment to those whose hands are stained with the blood of Iraqis".