Omar Eid Namer Al-Haddad, 54, is a Palestinian refugee living in Sana'a. He was arrested without a warrant under the pretext that police officers from Oulaya were looking for him, despite the fact that there was no summons issued in his name.

During the arrest, Omar Al-Haddad protested his incarceration, saying he would hand himself over the next morning. The officers refused his request and forcibly arrested him and his two sons.
One of his sons was able to contact their family by telephone and tell them that he and his brother were being held at Oulaya police station, but they did not know where their father had been taken.

The next day, the family went to Oulaya police station and learned that the two sons had been transferred to the counterterrorism services' detention center, where their father had already been detained.

Their family was able to visit them and noticed that Omar Al-Haddad has various bruises across his face. They learned that Omar Al-Haddad was been severely beaten the night before by the arresting officers.

Omar Al-Haddad and his two sons are currently being held illegally, as there exists no legal basis for their detention.

Alkarama fears that Omar Al-Haddad will be exposed to further torture, and that the two children themselves may be exposed to abuse, their detention is in itself a form of torture, as they have no means of challenging the legality of their detention, nor do they have access to even the any form of legal protection.

The Committee against Torture (CAT) in its periodic review of Yemen in May 2010, explicitly requested that the Yemeni authorities combat the methods of torture which are routinely practiced in its detention centers. The CAT recommended instituting "a national system to monitor and inspect all places of detention and to implement the results of the systematic review." The committee also encouraged the use of forensic doctors trained to detect signs of torture during these visits. The CAT also requested that "the State party clarify whether the Department of Political Security, the National Security Authority and the Counterterrorism Depart, under the Ministry of Interior, are under the control of civil authorities and the Prosecutor General has access to their detention centers, prisons and the military and private detention facilities. The committee also advised that "the State party should expressly prohibit all correctional facilities which are not under the auspices of the civil authority."