At 3:45 am on 23 February 2009, agents of the political police arrested Kassem Ali Kassem Al-Ghoul and his two sons Mohamed and Ibrahim at their home, injuring Mohamed. The authorities continue to deny the arrest and disappearance of these three people despite several requests for information.

Dr. Al-Basher, professor at the University of Riyadh, where he resides, has been detained incommunicado since 15 March 2007. For two years, other than a single visit, his family knows nothing of his future. Al-Karama sent on 14 April 2009 an urgent appeal to the Rapporteur on torture and requested the Working Group on arbitrary detention, asking them to intervene with Saudi authorities.

Al-Karama recently received the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention's opinion 37/2008 dated 21 November 2008 regarding the arrest and detention of Dr. Al-Faleh. Arrested on 19 May 2008 by the intelligence services (Al-Mabahith) and held incommunicado at the Al-Hayr prison near Riyadh, he was released in early January 2009.

Al-Karama and other Human Rights organizations have sent a letter to American Secretary of State Hillary Clinton regarding the current detention of Naji Hamdan in the UAE. The case is of great concern to the international human rights community.

While Morocco has announced its intention to ratify the Convention for the Protection of All Persons against Enforced Disappearance before the end of 2009, no such move has been announced by the Algerian authorities. Yet the country has every reason to avail itself of such an instrument if the authorities really wish to permanently resolve the difficult issue of enforced disappearances.