Abed Alkareem Shiah, a 59 year-old Syrian political opponent from Aleppo, was abducted on 3 October 2011 by several members of the Military Intelligence forces. His family has not heard from him ever since and the security services keep on denying his detention. Today, Alkarama solicited the intervention of the UN Working Group on Enforced Disappearances with the Syrian authorities on his behalf.

On 9 May 2014, Alkarama submitted an urgent appeal to the Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders on the case of Mr Al Balushi, Mr Al Yahyai and Mr Al Mamari who were arrested on 7 May 2014 and are currently being detained by the Internal Security Apparatus in Muscat.

On 7 May 2014, five Muslim Brotherhood supporters have been sentenced, under fabricated charges, to one year of prison by the Military Supreme Court of Qena.

Mr Ahmed Mossad Elmaadawi Mohamed and his father-in-law, Mr Abdul Rahim Mohamed Yousef Nour Al Din, have been arrested respectively on 13 January 2014 and 13 February 2014 in Abu Dhabi and have disappeared since. They are both of Egyptian nationality and were aged 29 and 58 at the time of their disappearances.

Within a month, the Al Minya Criminal Court handed down in two separate verdicts 1212 death sentences following blatantly unfair and speedy trials in relation to the demonstrations that happened on 14 August 2013. In the first case, 37 Muslim Brotherhood supporters had their death sentence, issued on 24 March 2014, upheld, while the 491 remaining accused had their sentence commuted into life imprisonment. In the second case, 683 alleged supporters of ousted President Mohamed Morsi, including the Muslim Brotherhood's leader Mohammed Badie, were also sentenced to death on 28 April 2014.

On 12 December 2012, Mohamed Al Salaimeh, a 17 year-old Palestinian from Hebron, was shot several times at the checkpoint of Al Salaimeh district by the Israeli military. He died on his birthday. More than a year later, those responsible for his execution have not been brought to justice. Today, Alkarama solicited the intervention of the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial executions to intervene with the Israeli authorities on the behalf of his family.

On 15 April 2014, 34 year-old prominent Saudi human rights defender Waleed Abu Al Khair, went to his 5th hearing session before the Special Criminal Court in Riyadh. At 8 am, he made a last phone call to his wife in Jeddah, informing her he had to turn off his cellular phone as he was entering the court room. She learnt the day after that he had been taken in the middle of his hearing to Al Hayer Prison. This is where he has been unlawfully detained and tortured ever since.

Members of the Yasin family were arrested on 9 and 11 March 2013 by the Syrian Military Intelligence at their home in Damascus. Rania, Abdul Rahman, Dima, Entisar, Najah, Alaa, Ahmad and Lian have been disappeared ever since... It has been over a year and their fate and whereabouts remain unknown.

Naef Al Refai, a Syrian military judge arrested on 22 March 2012 and disappeared for two years, is currently arbitrarily detained in Sednaya Prison, near Damascus.