Youssef Shehadeh disappeared for one year following his arrest on the 1 June 2007. In June 2008, he was finally allowed to make a phone call to his family from the prison. Arrested twelve days after his classmate, Ibrahim disappeared for several months as well. In more than 4 years of detention, they were transfered between Medina's prison and those in the Southern Province of Asir. Currently imprisoned respectively in Abha and Riyadh prisons where they were transfered to four months ago, Youssef and Ibrahim are both suffering from health pathologies. Youssef has almost lost all vision in his left eye due to the lack of medical care. As for Ibrahim, he has difficulties speaking  following a throat surgery one year ago during which one of his vocal cords was damaged. None of them had access to adequate medical care.

To date, the Lebanese students have not appeared before a judge and are still unaware of the reasons of their detention, which undoubtedly constitutes a violation of both national and international human rights norms. Today, Alkarama submitted their cases to the Working Group of Arbitrary Detention to ask it to intervene with the Saudi authorities on behalf of Youssef and Ibrahim. We call on the latter to free Youssef and Ibrahim or to place them under the protection of the law.