At 1pm on 11 April 2010, a plain clothed security officer, posing a someone else, asked Younes Zarli to come down from his apartment and join him downstairs in front of his building. He has since disappeared following the incident. Younes Zarli, 29, lives with his family in Casablanca and is married with a child.

Said Ezziouani, 30, and a resident of Casablanca, was abducted on 12 April 2010 near Assuna mosque in downtown Casablanca by several security agents.

When their families have realized they had gone missing, they immediately began to try to understand why the security services had abducted them. The authorities, however, refused to acknowledge the cases.

These disappearances are part of a wave of kidnappings currently sweeping across Morocco, especially amongst the youth.

The recent upsurge of enforced disappearances inside Morocco is clearly alarming. In an urgent appeal sent to the Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) regarding the cases of Zarli and Ezziouani, Alkarama further emphasized the severity of such practices and demands that they be brought to justice.