On 8 July 2014, Alkarama and Al Wissam Humanitarian Assembly requested the intervention of the UN Working  Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, with the Iraqi authorities to release Mustafa Jassim Kazem Al Rubaie immediately or at least to put him under the protection of the law. Arrested by the Iraqi authorities on 26 June 2006, the 24-year old Iraqi student was last seen on a video footage of a prison in Baghdad in February 2011, but the authorities continue to deny his detention.

During the American occupation in Iraq, numerous Iraqi citizens have been arbitrarily arrested or abducted, sometimes without specific motives. Some of them, held incommunicado in American branches, have not reappeared since. These detention centres have been handed over to the Iraqi authorities after the coalition forces left in 2011.

Ayesh Al Harby, a 41 year-old Saudi refugee, has been repeatedly detained and tortured in Iraq since his first arrest in July 2005. In 2009, he was sentenced by Al Rusafa court, Baghdad, to 15 years imprisonment following a grossly unfair trial. Ayesh and fifty eight other Saudi prisoners were transferred mid-March from Al Rusafa Prison to Al Nasiriyah, a maximum security prison located 300 km south-east of Baghdad, following a decision issued by the Ministry of Justice. Numerous former detainees report that conditions of detention in Al Nasiriyah prison remain very poor and that prisoners are systematically tortured on a daily basis. Fearing for Ayesh's physical and mental integrity, Alkarama solicited today the urgent intervention of the UN Special Rapporteur on torture with the Iraqi authorities to ensure that he is not tortured, in line with Iraq's obligation under the Convention against Torture.

Shawki Omar, a Jordanian national with American citizenship, has spent the last 10 years behind bars in Iraq. Ten years during which he was severely tortured on several occasions when he was held by US soldiers, then by the Iraqi authorities. Omar Shawki had left the United States for Iraq after the US invasion, hoping to find a well-paid job in the context of the efforts to rebuild the country's infrastructure. Instead, he was arrested in October 2004 by US soldiers and was sentenced six years later to 15 years in prison by the Central Criminal Court after a grossly unfair trial. His sentence was later reduced to 7 years. Shawki should have been released five years ago as he already served his sentence. Today, Alkarama asked today the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention to intervene urgently with the Iraqi authorities to request his immediate release from Karkh prison as his health condition is deteriorating and his detention is devoid of any legal basis.