On 18 April 2014, members of the Egyptian Homeland security abducted seven women on the same day in Assiut. One of them, Asma Khelf Chendine Abdelmajid, a young doctor working at Al Qasr Hospital was arrested in front of several witnesses as she was leaving work after a night shift. The authorities deny detaining her, raising strong concerns over her fate.

Since the launch on 8 July 2014 of "Operation Protective Edge", Israel's third major offensive on the Gaza strip in the last six years, the Israeli defence forces have killed 171 civilians, including 48 children and 31 women. Amongst them are the cases of four families, documented by Alkarama, which amount to 30 victims of extrajudicial executions, almost half of whom are children.

On 26 June 2014, the Egyptian Ministry of Solidarity put forward a draft law regulating associations that would give the government and security agencies veto power over all activities of associations in Egypt. Concerned about this draft law that bears many resemblances with the law that was in force under Mubarak and violates both the Egyptian constitution and international law, Alkarama wrote to the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association to intervene with the Egyptian authorities so that they refrain from adopting it.

On 9 July, Alkarama sent an urgent appeal to the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders to call upon Israeli authorities to respect their obligation to let defenders carry out their work freely. In particular, Alkarama brought the Special Rapporteur's attention on the case of Badia Dwaik, a respected human rights activist for the Palestinian cause, who has been continuously subjected to reprisals and harassment for his work documenting Israel's violations against Palestinians.

Between 2 and 7 July, Kuwaiti police forces have made excessive use of force against peaceful demonstrators asking for the release of Musallam al Barrak, a leading opposition figure arrested for accusing top judges of implication into a recent corruption scandal. Dozens of peaceful protesters were also arrested and have since been held in arbitrary detention.

Abducted by Syrian army officers at a military checkpoint on 3 September 2012, Mohammed Hayel Bakour and Yassin Ammouna have disappeared for almost two years. Despite various actions taken by their families to locate them, they are yet to receive information from the Syrian authorities.

On June 28, Egyptian police forces have arrested an Egyptian student, Ramadan Omar, as he was visiting a relative detained in Abu Zaabel's prison in Cairo. The 20-year old student is one of the several victims, often anonymous, of enforced disappearance, a practice which seems to be reappearing in a systematic manner in the country.

On Friday 3 July, exactly one year after the coup, Alkarama has submitted an urgent appeal to the United Nations Working Group on Enforced Disappearances to call on the Egyptian authorities to release immediately Fouad Kandil, General Secretary for the Western region of the Freedom and Justice Party, held incommunicado since the 15th of June.

Amer Jamil Jubran is a human rights defender focusing mostly on Palestine. He is arbitrarily detained since May 2014, by the Jordanian authorities. It is not the first time that his political activism leads him to be questioned by the Intelligence services.

Alkarama sent an urgent appeal to the Special Rapporteur against Torture concerning two French-Tunisians, Aissaoui Taha and Ben Ayed Mourad, arrested and secretly detained in Yemen since May 2014.