In the follow-up to the recommendations of the Human Rights Committee's periodic review of Tunisia, the government submitted, in March 2009, a reply to four of the recommendations. The Committee then wrote a follow-up letter in which it stated that such information was insufficient.

Dr. Sadok Chourou, the former chairman of the Tunisian political movement "Al-Nahdha", has been arbitrarily detained for nearly 20 years and has greatly suffered under particularly inhumane detention conditions.

Alkarama once again submitted his case on 9 September 2009 to the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, asking it to intervene with the Tunisian authorities. Our organization had already sent a communication to the Working Group on 19 December 2008 due to his re-arrest barely a month after his release.