On 22 December 2010, Alkarama had issued urgent appeals to the Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions and the Special Rapporteur on Torture asking them to intervene with the Saudi authorities to reveal the circumstances of the death of the Yemeni detainee Sultan Muhammad Abduh Al-Duaysi, who died under torture in Qasim prison in southern Saudi Arabia, and whose family have not been allowed to receive his corpse.

The family of Mr. Duaysi in Yemen stated that the Saudi authorities had forced one of the victim's brothers and some of his family in Saudi Arabia to take the corpse out of the security forces hospital's morgue in Qasim (in the Tarafiyya region) and to bury it on 10 April 2011 in the midst of heightened security procedures under the supervision of a security officer nicknamed “Abu Muhammad”, working as director of an assistant office of Minister of the Interior Prince Muhammad bin Naif, as well as other officers including the director of Qasim prison.

The Saudi authorities had refused for more than four months to hand the body of Mr. Duaysi over to his relatives in Yemen, fearing that they would perform an autopsy on the corpse to find criminal evidence against the Saudi authorities regarding the killing of Mr. Duaysi under torture in prison.

Despite the Saudi authorities' attempts at intimidating and forcing the family to agree to burying the victim's body in Saudi Arabia, the Duaysi family in Yemen continued to hold fast to their right to receive the corpse. This is what pushed the Saudi security authorities to force one of Mr. Duaysi's brothers living in Saudi Arabia to write a power of attorney to bury the corpse, taking advantage of his need to work within the Kingdom for his living.

The funeral and the burial took place accompanied by a television team filming the funeral and the burial, without any Saudi citizen being allowed to come near the corpse or to shake hands with any of the victim's relatives to offer condolences. The relatives' mobile phones were confiscated to prevent them from filming the marks of torture which were still clearly visible on the victim's body – his nose appeared to be broken and there were bruises on his face.

His blood relatives in Yemen said that they would never acknowledge any power of attorney taken from one of the victim's relatives in Saudi Arabia, and that they would look for the best way to prosecute those responsible for the murder of Mr. Sultan Al-Duaysi before an international court.

It is remarkable that the Yemeni authorities have done nothing about the killing of Mr. Duaysi, a Yemeni citizen, and that no Yemeni official has said a word regarding this event, nor demanded that the corpse be repatriated.

The family of Mr. Duaysi has not been spared threats and intimidation by the security officers of Prince Muhammad bin Naif's Bureau, especially when the family resorted to human rights organisations, including Alkarama. The family announced that Saudi officials had openly declared their defiance of human rights organisations and had expressed their displeasure with them.

In response to his steadfast rejection of threats, and his revealing the murder of his brother in Saudi prisons to the media, the Saudi Ministry of the Interior took revenge on Mr. Najmuddin Al-Duays, the brother of the victim Sultan Al-Duaysi, by spreading his picture in a security bulletin issued by the Saudi press warning him against entering Saudi territory, even though he had not committed any crime (none was mentioned), unless it be demanding the body of his brother after he had been killed under torture in Saudi prisons.