Alkarama for Human Rights has just been informed of the opinion issued on 8 May 2008 by the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention regarding Mr Abdul Rahman Al Sudais, arbitrarily detained since 2003. Alkarama had submitted a communication to the Working Group on 6 June 2005, asking them to intervene urgently with Saudi authorities.

Alkarama submitted, on 18 September 2008, a communication to the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, asking them to intervene in the case of Mr Khalid Al Shammari, a stateless person (Bedouin) from Kuwait, arrested in Saudi Arabia and detained incommunicado since January 2007.

Alkarama submitted, on 11 September 2008 to the Special Rapporteurs on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment and on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions a communication concerning the death of Khaled Hatem, a Yemenite citizen, who was arrested at the end of April 2008 and had been detained in the Dahabanhe prison in Djedda since that time. Savagely tortured, he died on 31 August 2008.