On 3 February 2012 human rights defender and lawyer Mr Abdulla Al Khalil was arrested in Al Riqqa and is currently being held in incommunicado detention.
On 24 January 2012, human rights defender and student activist Mr Ben Chiza Mkandawire was arrested in Lilongwe. He was questioned by police before being released on police bail the same day.
Over the past week bloggers and journalists Ms Parastou Dokouhaki and Ms Marzieh Rasouli were arrested by Iranian security forces in their homes in Tehran and are currently in detention.
On 13 January 2012, prominent human rights defender Mr Temogen Tulawie was arrested at his house in Davao City. He appeared before the Regional Trial Court of Davao City on 16 January 2012 under the accusation of being involved in a bombing incident in the municipality of Patikul, Sulu on 13 May 2009.
Four members of the Initiative of the resurgence of the abolitionist movement in Mauritania were arrested, handcuffed and taken into custody on 12 January 2012.
Human rights defender Ms Roza Tuletaeva, one of the leaders of the workers' strike committee of the oil company 'Ozenmunaigaz', was arrested on 3 January 2012 at her home in Zhanaozen, Western Kazakhstan.
On 6 January 2012, at 10am, human rights defender Mr Hasna Al Wali was arrested in the city of Dakhla by uniformed and plain clothes officers from the Moroccan Judiciary Police.
Blogger and human rights defender Razan Ghazzawi was arrested at the Syrian-Jordanian border as she was on her way to attend a workshop on media and freedom of expression in the Arab world.
On 14 November 2011, the Moroccan police forces arrested Western Saharan human rights defender Mr Atiqu Barrai near his family home in the town of Dakhla.
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