Dr Dirar Abusisi, a 42-year-old Palestinian from Gaza, was abducted on 18 February 2011 by the Ukrainian intelligences services on train from Kharkiv to Kiev and illegally rendered back to Israel where he is currently arbitrarily detained.

15-year-old Muhayb Abdallah Husayn Al-Ya'uri was brutally beaten to death by security agents in Sanaa on Monday 28 March 2011. The tragedy has rocked Yemen, which is currently under a state of emergency, as protests calling for the ouster of President Ali Salih continue across the nation.

Three Al Jazeera journalists were abducted by armed pro-Gaddafi forces on 8 March 2011 in Az-Zintan, 160km southwest of Tripoli, while trying to cross the border into Tunisia. Alkarama fears they are at high risk of torture given the way other international and national journalists have been treated by pro-Gaddafi forces.

Alkarama denounces the arrests and continues to bolster its condemnation of arbitrary detention in Saudi Arabia.

The families of abitrary detainees should be allowed to freely expresses their grievances against the Saudi regime's continued refusal to address the phenomenon of illegal detention without trial or charge.

Alkarama condemns the excessive use of force by Syrian security forces against peaceful demonstrators. Protesters have recently taken to the streets of Daraa, in southwestern Syria on the border with Jordan, demanding reforms. Calls are for an end to government corruption and the abolition of Syria's Emergency Law, in place since 1963. Protesters are also calling for the release of detainees arrested admits peaceful demonstrations or for having encouraged protests.

As a consequence, the wounded are refusing to seek medical assistance for fear of being kidnapped or killed.