One year after the adoption by the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention of an Opinion recognising the arbitrary character of the detention of 72 persons arrested following the 2007 Nahr Al Bared crisis and calling for their immediate release, the majority of them remain detained. All were condemned to heavy sentences on the basis of confessions obtained under torture and after years of pre-trial detention. On the anniversary of this landmark Opinion, Alkarama calls upon the Lebanese authorities to respect their international obligations and release or review the detainees' sentences.

On 23 October 2015, Alkarama sent its shadow report on the use of torture in Jordan to the United Nations Committee against Torture (CAT), in view of the country's upcoming review by the Committee during its 56th session. Despite recognising that several positive steps were taken by the Jordanian government since its last review in 2010, Alkarama report highlights that torture and other ill-treatments in Jordan continue to be used, especially by the Jordanian intelligence services who systematically arrest, detain and torture opposition figures, peaceful protesters and media workers under the Anti-Terrorism Law, with the aim to provide the State Security Court (SSC) with "confessions" that will then be used as an evidence.

On 13 July 2015, Alkarama sent its shadow report on the situation of torture in Iraq to the United Nations Committee against Torture (CAT), in view of the country's upcoming review by the Committee during its upcoming session on 29 and 30 July 2015. Noting that the practice of torture in Iraq is widespread and systematic, Alkarama highlighted its mains concerns – in particular the lack of a definition of torture, the climate of pervasive impunity and the systematic reliance on confessions under torture by the judiciary – and formulated 34 recommendations to the State party.