On 13 May 2009, Alkarama sent a communication to the Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearance (WGEID) requesting an urgent intervention with the Iraqi authorities in these three cases. On 14 May, Alkarama sent a communication regarding the same issue to the Special Rapporteur on Torture. 

Jasem Ibrahim Omar, born in 1989 and is a student who lives with his family in Diyala, near Baghdad. He is the brother of Ibrahim Jasem Ryad who also disappeared and for whom Alkarama sent a communication to the WGEID on 8 May 2009. He is also the nephew of Mohammed Al-Dainy. 

Odey Hassan Mansoor, born in 1981, is a university student and lives in Baghdad. He is the cousin of Al-Dainy. It was at his home that the three men were arrested. 

Hossein Gattouf Mansoor, born in 1971, is self-employed and a resident of Diyala. He is the brother of Mohammed Al-Dainy. 

According to the testimonies of their families, the three men were arrested by military personnel on 25 February 2009 at 18h00 at the home of Hassan Mansoor Odey, who had invited the two other men for dinner. Soldiers seeking relatives of Mohammed Al-Dainy cordoned the area and searched each house. Once arriving at the Mansoor family home, they arrested the three men; put hoods over their heads and handcuffed them, just as they had done to Ryad Ibrahim Jasem on February 11 2009. 

The father of Mohammed Al-Dainy, Mansoor Gattouf Anber, aged 85, present at the scene of arrest, suffered the same treatment. The four men were transported in military vehicles to an unknown destination. 

Mansoor Gattouf Anber, who was released after 2 days, was a victim of mistreatment during his detention. He was however unable to indicate where to find the three other men. The group was split on the road after their arrest. Nonetheless, it is likely that their place of detention is in the Green Zone of Baghdad. 

The families of the missing three have taken every possible step to know their place of detention, but the authorities refuse to provide any information on their fate. 

These three men were arrested at the same time as several other members of Mohammed Al-Dainy's family and have since disappeared. Alkarama plans to submit the case to other UN bodies. 

The arrests are linked to the activities of Mohammed Al-Dainy, who was heavily engaged in research and documentation of human rights violations committed by multinational military forces and the Iraqi government. 

It is therefore clearly a case of enforced disappearance and Alkarama has requested that the WGEID make an urgent intervention with the Iraqi government authorities in the shortest possible time; in order to release or place the three men under the protection of the law.