Alkarama submitted, on 11 September 2008 to the Special Rapporteurs on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment and on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions a communication concerning the death of Khaled Hatem, a Yemenite citizen, who was arrested at the end of April 2008 and had been detained in the Dahabanhe prison in Djedda since that time. Savagely tortured, he died on 31 August 2008.