Alkarama had submitted on 16 April 2007 a communication to the Working Group on Enforced Disappearances asking it to intervene urgently in Mr Abdaslam’s case, arrested on 24 December 2007 by agents of the Libyan internal security.

Mr Mohamed Salem Mjber Abdaslam, Libyan citizen born on 7 February 1974 and residing in Sweden, arrived in Libya on 24 December 2007 by plane, to visit his parents residing in Zliten, located about 150 kilometers east of Tripoli.

Four days after his arrival, officials of internal security (Amn Al Addakhili) went to the family home in Zilten at and proceeded to arrested him.

According to his family, they showed no judicial warrant nor provided him with a reason for his arrest.

Several members of his family have approached the authorities and in particular Zliten and Tripoli’s internal security services as well as the "people’s offices" to inquire in vain about his fate, and the reasons for his arrest and his secret detention.

The authorities had claimed until this moment that he was not being held.

It is therefore the first time that the authorities have admitted holding Mr Abdaslam. They did not, however, give a reason for his arrest nor clarify the legal charges that would justify his detention.