On the afternoon of 17 August 2009, State Security supported by the Special Forces of the Central Security Agency forcibly entered the residence of Yasser Ibrahim (a chemist working at the Red Sea Port Authority) and arrested  him  in addition to  32 of his guests. Their names are:

On 11 August 2009, Alkarama appealed to the Officer of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), in an individual communication on behalf of Mr Abushaala's brother.

On 5 August 2009 Alkarama sent a communication to the Special Rapporteur against Torture to ask him to urgently intervene with the Egyptian authorities.

On 4 August 2009 Alkarama sent a communication to the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention asking it to intercede with the Saudi authorities in the case of Mr Al-Rimi.

Alkarama appealed to the Human Rights Committee (HRC) on behalf of Mrs Farida Khirani, Ouaghlissi's wife, in the case of a personal communication dated 1 July 2009.

Alkarama made an appeal to the Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID), asking it to intercede with the Syrian authorities in the case of Mr Shusha in order that he be released or at least be put under the protection of the law.