Alkarama sent Ameen Al-Hossaini's case to the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD), requesting their intervention with the Yemeni authorities in order that he be immediately released and subsequently compensated.

Following his arrest, the Al-Hossaini family addressed Sana'a's Prosecutor General, Abdellah Al-Alfi, on several occasions. On 12 May 2010, Al-Alfi sent a letter to the director of criminal investigations, Rezk Al-Jawfi, in which he wrote: "Mr. Al-Hossaini is detained at the Political Security prison without any legal justification. He should be freed immediately or be brought before a judge."

However, the Director of Criminal investigations refused to respond to the Prosecutor General's request and told Ameen Al-Hossaini's family that he would be release only on the condition that his brothers, Ahmad Hamoud Al-Hossaini and Ismael Hamoud Al-Hossaini, wanted for fraud, surrender themselves to the criminal investigative services.

It is clear that Ameen Al-Hossaini is currently being held by the security service as a hostage and not because of any wrongdoing on his behalf.

On 26 May 2010, Ameen Al-Hossaini's lawyer tried to get a court in Sana'a to execute the orders of the Attorney General, however all attempts were in vain.

It is clear that since his arrest on 18 April 2010, Ameen Al-Hossaini is arbitrarily deprived of his liberty, without ever being subject to any legal procedures or ever having had the opportunity to challenge the validity of his imprisonment before a competent court.