Arrested by Political Security services in Al-Mansoura on 20 October 2007, Azam Hassan was then directly transferred to the Political Security Department in Al-Tawahi. Following his release after his original arrests in 2005 and 2006, Azam Hassan was made to sign monthly statements at the Political Security Department headquarters in Al-Mansoura and was subsequently arrested on such an occasion in October 2007.

Much like thousands of other detainees in Yemen, Azam Hassan has never been presented before a judge nor been subject to any form of judicial proceedings. Since he began his hunger strike, his ailing mother has also taken part in the hunger strike, in solidarity with her son, and is now bedridden after suffering an aneurysm.

Alkarama calls upon the Yemeni authorities to release Azam Hassan and to release or bring to justice all those Yemeni prisoners held without trial or legal proceedings.