Alarmed and concerned about the ongoing repression of the opposition by the Djibouti authorities, Alkarama wrote an urgent appeal to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention to ask for the release of Mohamed Ibrahim Waiss, a journalist arrested and arbitrarily detained since 8 August, 2014.
Djiboutian police forces arrested Waiss as he was covering a demonstration by the opposition in Djibouti city. Beaten and his eye wounded during his arrest, he was taken to the Hodan police station where he was again subjected to police violence and did not receive medical attention.