On 27 January 2015, Alkarama sent an urgent appeal to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture (SRT) regarding the case of Abdelrahman Mahmoud Omar Kamal, a 23-year-old civil engineer and charity worker arrested by the Homeland Security on 22 September 2014 and secretly detained and tortured for 119 days. He is still detained and at high risk of ill-treatment, while his family was only allowed to see him once.
Alkarama welcomes the release of Abdullah Abdulhallem Abdulhallem Zalat on 26 January 2015, for whom it had sent an urgent appeal to the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) asking for his release. Abdullah Zalat, a 31-year-old civil engineer had been abducted by the Egyptian Homeland Security forces after several members of the security forces had raided his house in the city of Tanta, 100km north of Cairo.
On 22 January 2015, Alkarama sent an urgent appeal to the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) regarding the case of Abdullah Abdulhallem Abdulhallem Zalat, a 31-year-old civil engineer abducted by the Egyptian Homeland Security forces on 16 January 2015 and has been missing since. Alkarama believes that he is at high risk of being subjected to ill-treatment whilst being secretly detained by the intelligence services.
On 15 January 2015, Alkarama sent an urgent appeal to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture (SRT) regarding the case of Anas Mohamed Mohamed Khamis, a 17-year-old Egyptian student arrested by the police of Alexandria on 26 November 2014. He has since been detained in the police station of Sidi Gaber, where he was subjected to various acts of torture and ill-treatment, including sexual abuse.
On 8 January 2015, Alkarama sent an urgent appeal to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) and to the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID). The communication concerns the case of Ahmed Mahmoud Mahmoud Mahmoud Taha, a 16-year-old high school student, detained incommunicado since his arrest by agents of the security forces on 18 May 2014.