Alkarama sent their case to the Special Rapporteur against Torture on 7 May 2010, requesting his intervention with the Moroccan authorities to ensure that both men are put under the protection of the law.

Since their disappearances, family members have visited various regional police stations, however no information has come to light. Meanwhile, the Moroccan authorities continue to deny any knowledge of the arrests.

Alkarama has in recent weeks received many reports from Morocco regarding several campaigns of arrests carried out by the security services. It has become clear that the cases of Mohamed Boutarfa and Zouhair Benkassou are far from isolated incidences.
Mahdi Maliana, also an engineering student at the same university, suffered a similar fate when he arrested on 19 March 2010. He has since disappeared. Alkarama alerted the Working Group on enforced and involuntary disappearances (WGEID) of his case on 5 May 2010.

If no information regarding these two recent disappearances comes to lights in the coming weeks, Alkarama intends to submit the cases to the WGEID in order to put further pressure on the Moroccan authorities for their reappearance and release.