On 10 May 2010,Palestinian authorities released human rights activist, Muhannad Salahat without charge. His release comes in the wake of his secret/incommunicado detention, during which he threatened and subjected to tortured, which eventually ended in an investigation of the Palestinian Human Rights Foundation (Monitor), a human rights organisation that investigates human rights violations in Palestinian Occupied Territories, for whom he is a representative in Jordan. Muhannad Salahat is still subject to a travel ban despite his release, which raises further fears that he may be re-arrested or disappeared.

Samir Afif Ammar was sitting in a small café in Deir Al-Zor, a city in northeastern Syria on the Euphrates, when a man he had never met named "Abu Omar" sparked a conversation. Abu Omar said he could give him work in an Iraqi oil field and he promised him a good salary. It was January 2009, and Abu Omar would soon thereafter smuggle a then 19 year-old Samir across the border to Iraq. Samir spent two weeks in Iraq, and as recounts, "I can't remember the rest."

Walid Al-Kainai was arrested on 15 March 2005 in Ta'izz by local Political Security forces. In the last five years, he has been imprisoned in various locations and has never been on trial.