Between late December 2015 and early February 2016, members of the Homeland Security and of the police arrested another three men for no apparent reason. Two young brothers, Abdelmoneim and Abdelrahman Nasr Kotb Mousa and father-of-four Mohammed Gommaa Mahmoud El Safty, have been missing since and their respective families remain unaware of their fates and whereabouts, despite having solicited various official bodies. Left without any recourse at the national level, they contacted Alkarama who sent urgent appeals to the Working Group on Enforced Disappearances (WGEID), asking this United Nations Special Procedure on human rights to request the Egyptian authorities to immediately disclose their places of detention and to authorise their families and lawyers to visit them.

Despite documenting an increasing number of cases of enforced disappearances in the hands of all kinds of government forces in the country, the international community has continuously failed to address this issue with the Egyptian government. Since the beginning of the year alone, Alkarama documented several cases of enforced disappearance, five of which occurred in the space of a week, including the cases of 46-year-old electrician, Ahmed Mahmoud Mohamed Metwally − who went missing following his arrest by the army in the North Sinai on 29 October 2015 − and that of Amr Mohammed Mohammed Al Emam and Ahmed Awany Abdelbasir Mohammed − disappeared in the hands of the Homeland Security on 10 February 2016. With a view to make them reappear, Alkarama raised their respective cases with the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) hoping its intervention with the Egyptian authorities will bear fruit.

Alkarama calls upon the Egyptian authorities to revoke the procedure launched on 17 February 2016 to close the Nadeem Center for the Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence and Torture. Founded in 1993, the Nadeem Center is a well-known Egyptian clinic that has provided professional council and assistance to thousands of victims of torture and other forms of violence since its creation. As it started to document an increasing number of cases of police violence, the administrative procedure launched against it seems to have no other aim than stifling one of the few remaining independent organisations in the country.

A 48-year-old lawyer and member of liberal political party Al Dostour, Raafat Faisal Ali Shehata − also known as Ahsraf Shehata − disappeared in the hands of the Egyptian Homeland Security more than two years ago, on 13 January 2014. While the authorities continue to deny his detention claiming that Ashraf left Egypt, his wife was told by several former detainees or families of detainees that he was effectively detained. She even thought she had found him when the Ministry of Interior recently listed him as serving a five-year prison sentence in Zagzagig prison, but the information was soon denied by the same Ministry, which kept on claiming they did not know anything about the victim. In last resort, Ashraf's relatives contacted Alkarama, hoping its work with the United Nations human rights protection mechanisms might help shed light on Ashraf's disappearance.