As a measure to put pressure on the Syrian authorities to release information regarding his arrest and detention, Alkarama sent Mohamed Al-Braidy's case to the Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances.

Mohammed Saad Eddin Al-Braidy is a farmer from Jamlah in the Naheyet Al-Shajara area of Daraa in southern Syria.

Since his arrest, Mohamed Al-Braidy's family has not received any news, despite taking all possible steps to learn of his whereabouts. The family have asked the Airforce Intelligence of Mohamed Al-Braidy's whereabouts but they refuse to acknowledge his detention. The family also asked various other branches of the security services and the military police about his whereabouts and was given permission to visit Sednaya Prison where they were again told that Mohamed Al-Braidy is not being detained.

Alkarama fears for Mohamed Al-Braidy's physical and mental health as he is in ongoing risk of torture and ill-treatment while in secret detention and completely isolated from the outside world.

Alkarama requests that the Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances intervenes with the Syrian authorities to ensure the immediate release of Adnan Kassem Zaitoun or that he be placed under the protection of the law as soon as possible.

Alkarama also requests that the Working Group ensures Al Braidy's conditions of detention in prison are within the standards laid out by the Body of Principles for the Protection of All Persons under Any Form of Detention or Imprisonment, adopted by General Assembly resolution 43/173 in December 1988.We recall that Syria ratified the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights on 21 April 1969 and the Convention against Torture on 19 August 2004.