On 21 February 2011, Mr Ramadan was sentenced to 6 years imprisonment in a trial which seriously violates international legal norms: Mr Ramadan was not allowed access to a lawyer of his choice and the trial was not public. Seeing as he was detained on 21 July 2005, the sentencing to 6 years was clearly issued as justification for the previous 5 and a half years of detention. It should have meant that he would be released on 20 July 2011. However, to this day, the Syrian authorities refused to release him, and since the 17 July have not allowed his family to see him.

In September 2009, Alkarama submitted his case to the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, a group which considers cases of people detained around the world according to international law and decides whether their detention is legal or not. This Working Group issued Opinion No. 24/2010 on 19 November 2010, considering Mr Ramadan's deprivation of liberty for more than 5 years to be arbitrary and requested the Syrian authorities to "immediately release" him and "accord him reparation".

Therefore, more than ten months after the adoption of this Opinion and 1 month after the end of his sentence, Mr Ramadan remains detained at the Palestine Branch of Damascus Prison. Mr Ramadan's family is deeply affected by the uncertainty of his situation.