Alkarama submitted today a communication to the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention asking it to intervene in the case of Mr. Mohamed Salem Mjber Abdaslam, arrested on 28 December 2007, disappeared for 8 months and detained arbitrarily.

Alkarama today submitted to the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention the cases of Messrs Mustapha Kamel Houriya aged 52, Ahmed Abdelkader Kerroum and Youcef Amar Dehnine, both aged 41 years.

Alkarama has received additional information about nine people about whom it had addressed, in September 2007, a communication to the Special Rapporteur on torture. Alkarama thus informed the Special Rapporteur on 16 October 2008 that these persons were tried by a military court on the basis of confessions obtained under torture.