Today marks a year of arbitrary detention of the Saudi lawyer and human rights defender, Waleed Abu Al Khair. His family launches a Twitter campaign at 6pm advocating for his release.

On 6 July 2014 the Specialised Criminal Court sentenced Waleed Abu Al-Khair to 15 years of imprisonment and to a 200,000-riyal fine in accordance with Article 21 of the law on crimes of terrorism. Amongst others, he was accused of: "hurting the state legitimacy," "disturbing public order and diminishing the judiciary," "publicly defaming in the judiciary and discrediting Saudi Arabia by alienating international organisations against the Kingdom," making statements and releasing documents "to harm the reputation of the Kingdom," and of being part of an unauthorised association, being its chairman and speaking on its behalf.

Awad Al Hayki, a 33 year-old Yemeni national has been detained in Al Qasim Prison since 18 October 2010, the day he was extradited by Qatar to the Saudi authorities. Detained in solitary confinement for almost a year, without being able to communicate with his family, he has been subjected to severe torture. To date, Al Hayiki has never been charged. Alkarama sent an urgent appeal on 16 December 2014 to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture (SRT) arguing that his rendition by Qatar and torture at the hands of Saudi Arabia are serious breaches of the UN Convention against Torture, to which the two states are parties.