On 8 October 2015, Alkarama sent a communication to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) regarding the detention of three brothers aged between 17 and 28 arbitrarily detained since their respective arrests on 14 and 15 April 2014. Tortured on several occasions and accused under trumped-up charges, the three brothers were sentenced in absentia by Mansoura Criminal Court on 19 January 2015.

Alkarama welcomes the selection, on 6 October 2015, of Emirati human rights defender Ahmed Mansoor as laureate of the 2015 Martin Ennals Award in recognition of his work providing credible and independent assessment of the human rights situation in the country.

On 30 September 2015, Alkarama referred to the UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression (FREEDEX) the case of Hicham Mansouri, a 35-year-old journalist arrested on 17 March 2015 and sentenced to 10 months in prison for "complicity of adultery".

On 6 October 2015, Alkarama and Human Rights Guardians sent a communication to the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) regarding the case of 23-year-old Mahmoud Ali Deeb and 32-year-old Mohannad Al Kheir, who disappeared in the town of Al-Haffah in the Latakia Governorate betwee

On 30 September 2015, Alkarama submitted to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) a communication on the case of shopkeeper Mohamed Nougaoui, sentenced to 20 years in prison following an unfair trial. The 65-year-old father has now been detained for 12 years and is currently in custody at the Toulal 2 prison in Meknès.

Held incommunicado after his arrest for over a month and a half

Alkarama and the Djiboutian League for Human Rights (LDDH) deplore the decision of the Tribunal of Djibouti City, which sentenced, on 4 October 2015, Abdoulkarim Djama Guedi, Hamze Reyeh Hassan, Yahye Elmi Younis, Ibrahim Hassan Abdi and Said Ali Miguil to a conditional one year prison sentence for an alleged "illegal demonstration".

On 5 October 2015, Alkarama sent an urgent action to the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) regarding the arrest and subsequent disappearance, on 13 September 2015, of two young brothers, Anas and Azzam Magdy Abdelfattah Mahmoud Allam, by the Homeland Security and the General Investigations Department.

On 5 October 2015, Alkarama sent an urgent appeal to the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) regarding the case of Syrian activist Bassel Khartabil, who disappeared after his transfer from Adra Prison on 3 October 2015.

Detention and Disappearance

On 5 October 2015, Alkarama sent an urgent appeal to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders (HRD), Michel Forst, calling on him to intervene in the case of journalist and human rights defender, Hassan Bouras, arrested without judicial warrant in early October 2015 and currently detained in El Bayadh prison.

On 21 September 2015, Alkarama transmitted its submission to the Stakeholder's Summary in view of the Sudan's second Universal Periodic Review (UPR) by the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) which is expected to be held during its 25th Session in April-May 2016.