Twelve Egyptian citizens were abducted at the hands of the police during the midterm Shura Council elections which took place on Tuesday 1 June 2010. 74 seats from 55 districts in 27 governorates of a total of 29, were in contention during the election.

Alkarama has just received news that former Egyptian intelligence officer, Nabil Al-Maghraby, who was in the reserves during the October 1973 war, is currently Egypt's longest standing political prisoner. He was arrested in 1979, and is amongst the names of those suspected in the assassination of President Anwar Sadat on 6 October 1981. Nearly two years ago Nabil Al-Maghraby was sentenced for the first time - to life imprisonment.

On 16 January 2010, State Security Investigative (SSI) forces arrested Sudanese refugee, Hassan Mahmoud Mohamed, 32, from his home in 6th of October City and took him to an unknown location; following his transfer to Tora prison 55 days later, his family learned that he was held incommunicado at the SSI headquarters in Nasr City.