Between late August and November 2008, Syrian security services arrested eight people in Qamishli, a town in the north-east of Syria. These people have since disappeared. Alkarama submitted a communication to the Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID), asking it to intervene with the Syrian authorities.

Alkarama today submitted to the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention the cases of Messrs Mustapha Kamel Houriya aged 52, Ahmed Abdelkader Kerroum and Youcef Amar Dehnine, both aged 41 years.