One year after the adoption by the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention of an Opinion recognising the arbitrary character of the detention of 72 persons arrested following the 2007 Nahr Al Bared crisis and calling for their immediate release, the majority of them remain detained. All were condemned to heavy sentences on the basis of confessions obtained under torture and after years of pre-trial detention. On the anniversary of this landmark Opinion, Alkarama calls upon the Lebanese authorities to respect their international obligations and release or review the detainees' sentences.

On 6 November 2015, the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) adopted a draft report containing the recommendations made by United Nations Member States to Lebanon during the State's review, which took place on 2 November 2015. During the review, States expressed their concern over Lebanon's human rights situation, especially regarding the pervasive practice of torture, the use of military tribunals for civilians, the death penalty and the delay in establishing an independent national human rights institution (NHRI), all issues previously raised by Alkarama in its report submitted to the Human Rights Council (HRC) in view of Lebanon's review on 23 March 2015.

On 9 October 2015, Alkarama sent an urgent appeal to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) on the case of Layal al-Kayaje, detained since her summon for investigation by the Lebanese Military Intelligence in Saida, on 21 September 2015, shortly after she denounced having been tortured and raped by military officers during her detention in 2013.

The signatory organizations call upon the Lebanese judiciary to act on the case of Layal al-Kayaje, a veterinary clinic employee from Saida, who was summoned for investigation on September 21, 2015 by Lebanese army intelligence in Saida, Lebanon, following her statements on alleged torture and rape during detention.