Mr Saad Abu Nayan was arrested in 2004 at Mina near Mecca during the pilgrimage, without a warrant. He was a victim of ill-treatment. Since then, he is being detained without trial and without knowing the reasons for his imprisonment.
Nuaimy Al Abdullah - Protest in Bahrein
Abdullah Al Nuaimy, a Bahraini, was detained by the United States of America Camp in Guantanamo Bay for more than 4 years before being released without trial on 05 November 2005. On 29 October 2008 he travelled to Saudi Arabia by road. He was arrested at the border, and has disappeared since then.
Alkarama for Human Rights submitted, on 16 January 2009 an urgent appeal to the Special Rapporteur on Torture, asking him to intervene in the case of Mr Khaled Suleyman Al Omeir, arrested on 1 January 2009 and detained incommunicado since.
Dr Matrouk Al-Faleh, a member of the Arab Commission for Human Rights, who was arrested on 19 May 2008 by the intelligence services (Al Mabahith) and detained incommunicado at the Al Hayr prison near Riyadh, has just been released.
Alkarama has just been officially informed of Opinion N° 13/2008 rendered during the last session of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention regarding the detention of Ali Al Chahri who was arrested on 23 August 2006. Alkarama had seized the UN organ on 11 May 2007.