On 1st of August 2008, Alkarama submitted a communication to the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention asking the Working Group to intervene in the case of Mr Nasser Al Hadiqi. He was wounded by gunfire during his arrest on 8 April 2004, and held since then without having any charges brought against him

Alkarama has learned that Mr. Mahmoud Hozbor, detained since 03 July 2003 in Saudi Arabia in a secret location and without legal procedure, telephoned his wife on June 20, 2008, for the first time in several years, informing her that he was detained at the prison of Al-Qasim, where he was transferred 4 months ago and where he is held in a solitary cell.

Alkarama for Human Rights sent a communication to the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) asking it to intervene in the case of Mr. Saleh Al Hweiti, engaged poet, arbitrarily detained since October 27, 2004.

Alkarama sent a communication to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) asking it to intervene urgently with the Saudi authorities in the case of Mr. Abdulrahim Al-Murbati, Bahraini citizen, detained without due process of law since August 22, 2003 in Saudi Arabia and whose family has receiving no news about him since June 06, 2008.