On 13 and 14 January 2016, Alkarama attended the Regional Conference on "the Role of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights [OHCHR] in Promoting and Protecting Human Rights in the Arab Region" in Doha, which welcomed 230 participants from governments, regional and civil society organisations and the OHCHR.
On 4 January 2016, Alkarama seized the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) with the case of Abdelkader Belliraj, a 59-year-old Belgian-Moroccan citizen sentenced by the Moroccan authorities to life imprisonment in 2009 on the sole basis of confessions obtained under torture – which is why his case was dismissed in Belgium in October 2013.
On 15 January 2016, Alkarama seized again the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression (SR FRDX) and on Torture (SRT) regarding the case of Mohamed Ibrahim Waïss, a Djiboutian journalist deta
Alkarama welcomes the release, on 10 January 2016, of lawyer Mouayad Obeed Al Ezzi, who was arrested on the basis of an already cancelled arrest warrant by members of the police forces on 29 December 2015.
On 11 January 2016, the police arrested Mohamed Ibrahim Waïss, a 41-year-old independent journalist working for the Voice of Djibouti. Regularly harassed by the authorities due to his position statements, he has since then been detained without being allowed to see his family or lawyer, while the charges against him remain undetermined.
Alkarama welcomed the release, on 11 January 2016, of Ali Mustafa Ahmad Hanoon, a blind Palestinian Imam arrested by Israeli soldiers in May 2014. Ali Mustafa was arbitrarily held in administrative detention for 20 months before being released.
On 11 October 2015, construction worker Ayoub Al Mashhadani, aged 17 at the time, was arrested at his workplace and taken to an unknown location. Until today, his family was not able to obtain any information on his fate and whereabouts.
On 14 December 2015, the National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) arrested 24-year-old student Emad Al Sadig Ismail Hamdoun after he visited some friends at the Omdurman headquarters of the Umma National Party, the main opposition party in Sudan and of which he is a member.
On 22 November 2015, the detention of Hany Mohamed Hassanin Sharaf, founder of the Civilized Alternative Party and former Egyptian Air Force pilot, was renewed for 45 days pending investigations.
On 28 July 2014, 27-year-old Iraqi national, Salah Al Dulaimi disappeared following his night arrest by a squad of the Special Weapons and Tactics Unit (SWAT), a special security force that has considerably strengthened since its creation by the U.S. Army during the occupation.
