On 1 September 2016, Alkarama referred the case of Mohamed Said, an Egyptian citizen detained in Saudi Arabia, to the Special Rapporteur on Torture (SRT) Juan Méndez, in order to prevent his extradition from Saudi Arabia to Egypt, where he will be at risk of torture.
Mohamed Said had been tried in absentia and sentenced by an Egyptian court in 2014 for "belonging to a banned organisation", the Muslim Brotherhood which is considered by the Egyptian authorities, as terrorist since 2013. On 8 August 2016, a year and a half after moving to Saudi Arabia, Mohamed Said received a deportation order from the Saudi authorities, to which he consequently surrendered himself on 22 August 2016. He was detained at the Dammam Deportation Centre, where he was informed that the Ministry of Interior (MoI) had decided to forcibly return him to Egypt. Since, he remains detained incommunicado, without access to a lawyer and has no legal avenue to challenge the MoI's decision.
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