Kadar Saado, a 32-year-old Syrian Kurd and IT expert is believed to have been arrested due to his relationship with Munzer Oscan, who was abducted in 2008 and held incommunicado for almost a year.

Following a year's incommunicado detention beginning in January 2009, Kadar Saado was allowed a family visit for the first time in February 2010 - followed by a second visit in March 2010.

To this day he still had not been charged or appeared before a judge. In addition to a complete lack of legal proceedings, he has been refused access to legal counsel.

More than 20 months after his arrest, Alkarama sent Kadar Saado's case to the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) on 19 October 2010 requesting its intervention with the Syrian authorities on behalf of Mr Saado.

By keeping Kadar Saado in arbitrary detention, the Syrian authorities are in violation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, to which they acceded in 1969.

The practice of arbitrary detention and torture is common in Syrian detention centres and prisons. The Committee against Torture had the recent opportunity to review Syria and emphasized in its concluding observations (CAT/C/SYR/CO/1) adopted on 12 May 2010 that they remained deeply concerned by the widespread use of torture against prisoners...(para 7)