Ibrahim Mujahid was arrested on 8 March 2010 by security guards of Kwaisna Art Institute while he was putting up posters written by students in support the Al-Aqsa mosque (in Jerusalem). The guards led him to their office where they tied him up and severely beat him all over his body.

On 28 April 2010, Alkarama sent his case to the Special Rapporteur on Torture, requesting that the Egyptian authorities conduct a full and impartial investigation into the acts of torture suffered by Ibrahim Mujahid, to establish who is responsible in order punish the perpetrators.

On 29 March 2009, Mohamed El Sanussi Mahmoud was arrested by police officers in Cairo. He was taken to Shobra Al-Khayma police station where he was held without charge for six months and subjected to repeated bouts of torture.

On 27 April 2010, Alkarama sent his case to the Special Rapporteur on Torture requesting an investigation by the Egyptian authorities into the alleged torture, in order to determine who was responsibile and bring the perpetrators to justice.

Alkarama has just received news that former Egyptian intelligence officer, Nabil Al-Maghraby, who was in the reserves during the October 1973 war, is currently Egypt's longest standing political prisoner. He was arrested in 1979, and is amongst the names of those suspected in the assassination of President Anwar Sadat on 6 October 1981.

On the morning of 3 December 2009, Doha Aboutabit, a 25 year-old doctor of dual French-Moroccan nationality, was arrested by four police officers at her parents' home in Rabat. She was immediately take to Al-Maarif police in Casablanca. During her detention she was psychologically tortured for 12 days and exposed to cruel treatment.

On 14 February 2010, Sadman Hossain was kidnapped by political security agents as he was heading on foot towards Sana'a International Airport with his sister Rifat. He has since disappeared.

Alkarama submitted his case to the Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) on 26 April 2010, asking for its intervention with the Yemeni authorities for Sadman Hossain's release, or in the least, that he be put on trial.

Ammar and Fadel Fawaz, two bothers from Sana'a, were arrested on separate occasions in December and August 2009 and are currently illegally detained at Sana'a's Political Security prison.

Ammar Abdallah Mohamed Fadel, 30, was arrested at his home on 17 December 2009 by Political Security agents accompanied by military officers who help raid and occupy his home. During the foray, several of his family members, including young children were abused.

Younes Zarli and Said Ezziouani were allegedly abducted by officers of the Directorate of Territorial Surveillance (DST) on 11 and 12 April 2010 in Casablanca and have since vanished.

At 1pm on 11 April 2010, a plain clothed security officer, posing a someone else, asked Younes Zarli to come down from his apartment and join him downstairs in front of his building. He has since disappeared following the incident. Younes Zarli, 29, lives with his family in Casablanca and is married with a child.

Mr Alweis was arrested by the Iraqi authorities on 2 December 2004 in the Mahmudiyah region

After stepping out to buy groceries in the early hours of 30 September 2009, Walid Hosni, a 23 year old medical student from Naasen (Ben Arous governorate), near the capital Tunis, disappeared and his family has since lost contact with him. At the time of his disappearance he was not carrying any ID and had only intended be out of the house for a short while.

The families of the victims of the Abu Salim prison massacre went out to demonstrate on Saturday, 17 April 2010, just as they go out every Saturday. Their peaceful protest consists of marching in front of Benghazi Court demanding that the Libyan government disclose the facts and events surrounding the June 1996 massacre. However, on this fateful Saturday, the Libyan authorities decided to lashback. A government supported families' association for the prison guards and police involved in the massacre rallied a counter-protest and attacked the victims' families.