At the conclusion of its visit to Libya, the UN Independent Fact-Finding Mission on Libya stressed the responsibility of the Libyan authorities to take decisive steps to provide justice and redress to the vast number of victims suffering long-standing violations of human rights and international humanitarian law in the country.

The Saudi Court of Appeals has, in retaliation, doubled the prison sentences of several relatives of the prominent preacher Safar bin Abdulrahman AL HAWALI for refuting the charges and refusing the injustice suffered.

According to Saudi human rights sources, the Court of Appeal issued a ruling to increase the sentence issued against Saadallah Al Hawali, brother of Dr. Safar Al Hawali, from 4 to 14 years.

Alkarama sent an urgent appeal to the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, the Special Rapporteur on the right to freedom of opinion and expression and a number of other United Nations (UN) actions regarding the concerns of the death sentence sought by the Saudi Public Prosecution against aca

On 26 December 2022, Alkarama joined several Lebanese civil society organisations in seizing the UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (SPT) and relevant UN Special Procedure mandate holders with a call for urgent action concerning the situation in Roumieh prison and other Lebanese detention centres.

Dr. Abdul Rahman Al-Hamid, a human rights activist and member of the Association for Civil and Political Rights "ACPRA", was released by the Saudi authorities after serving nine years in prison following an unfair trial for his peaceful activism. However, he remains under a travel ban for another nine years.

On 23 December 2022, Alkarama sent an urgent appeal to the Special Rapporteur on Torture regarding the situation of Tawfiq Al Mansoori, Harith HAMID and Abdul Khaleq AMRAN, Yemeni journalists who were subjected to torture while in detention in the Central Security Camp prison in the Yemeni capital, Sana'a.

On 19 December 2022 Iraq was urged by the UN Committee against Enforced Disappearances (CED) to reveal the fate of Salam Al Boumahidi and Hazim Al Ezzawi, Iraqi citizens who disappeared during 2014 following their abduction by the Iraqi army.

On 29 November 2022, Alkarama submitted the case of Mustafa Faraj Mohammad Masud AL JADID AL UZAYBI (also known as “Abu Faraj AL LIBI”) to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD). This Libyan national has been arbitrarily detained in Guantánamo Bay detention centre since his transfer from a CIA “black site” on 4 September 2006.