On 18 April 2014, members of the Egyptian Homeland security abducted seven women on the same day in Assiut. One of them, Asma Khelf Chendine Abdelmajid, a young doctor working at Al Qasr Hospital was arrested in front of several witnesses as she was leaving work after a night shift. The authorities deny detaining her, raising strong concerns over her fate.
On 26 June 2014, the Egyptian Ministry of Solidarity put forward a draft law regulating associations that would give the government and security agencies veto power over all activities of associations in Egypt. Concerned about this draft law that bears many resemblances with the law that was in force under Mubarak and violates both the Egyptian constitution and international law, Alkarama wrote to the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association to intervene with the Egyptian authorities so that they refrain from adopting it.
On June 28, Egyptian police forces have arrested an Egyptian student, Ramadan Omar, as he was visiting a relative detained in Abu Zaabel's prison in Cairo. The 20-year old student is one of the several victims, often anonymous, of enforced disappearance, a practice which seems to be reappearing in a systematic manner in the country.
On Friday 3 July, exactly one year after the coup, Alkarama has submitted an urgent appeal to the United Nations Working Group on Enforced Disappearances to call on the Egyptian authorities to release immediately Fouad Kandil, General Secretary for the Western region of the Freedom and Justice Party, held incommunicado since the 15th of June.
On 4 March 2014, Basem Mohsen Hassan Elkhoribi was abducted on Port Said Street of Mansoura by security forces along with his friend Eng Ayman Farag. The authorities keep on denying his detention despite several steps taken by his family to find him.
Alkarama has sent an urgent appeal to the United Nations Working Group on Enforced Disappearance asking for his immediate release.