Articles for Iraq

On 25 March 2025, Alkarama submitted its follow-up report to the United Nations Human Rights Committee regarding Iraq’s implementation of the recommendations made during its sixth periodic review, which took place in March 2022 in Geneva.

On January 16, 2025, Alkarama submitted a request for urgent intervention to the United Nations Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED) regarding the disappearance of Mr. Ayesh Al Harby, a Saudi national currently detained in Al Rusafa prison in Baghdad, Iraq. 

Ayesh Al Harby: Disappeared During Detention 

Iraq, a party to the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance since November 23, 2010, is called upon to act to locate the victims of enforced disappearance and to provide concrete answers to families seeking truth and justice. 

Alkarama highlights the possibility of invoking universal jurisdiction against Iraqi officials involved in collective arbitrary executions, which have recently increased in frequency. 

Iraqi authorities recently carried out one of the largest waves of executions since 2003, handing over the bodies of at least 50 executed detainees by hanging at the central prison of Nasiriyah in the south of the country in September. 

On October 16, 2024, Alkarama addressed an urgent appeal to the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial executions regarding the risk of extradition faced by Saudi citizen Ayesh Al Harby, currently detained in Iraq. 

On October 10, 2024, Al Harby was brought before the Al Rusafa court, which informed him of his imminent extradition to Saudi Arabia, where he risks being executed, or at best, tortured. 

The United Nations Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED) has called on Iraq to locate Walid AL JANABI who has been missing since his arrest on 6 June 2015 at his family home by members of the Iraqi army. 

Iraq was recently called upon by the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances to reveal the fate of Amer Al Kartani, an Iraqi citizen who has been missing for ten years now. 

The undersigned organizations call on Arab governments to accelerate the repatriation of their nationals stranded in northern Syria and Iraq for years, following the example of the repatriation of nationals of other nationalities, especially those of European nationality, repatriated to their countries in recent years. 

The UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances has called on the Iraqi government to provide clarification regarding the case of Ali Alwan Khalaf AL JANABI, an Iraqi citizen who died following his execution by state authorities in April 2021. 

AL JANABI was missing since his kidnapping on 2 July 2014 from his home located in the Al Askari neighborhood of Al Mazraa in the Latifiya governorate (south of Baghdad) by several members of the army. 

On 15 September 2023, Alkarama sent an urgent appeal to the United Nations Committee on Enforced Disappearances regarding Syrian citizen arbitrarily detained in Iraq, Azmi Derri Mohamed Al Haddar, to prevent his deportation to Syria where there is a huge risk for him to be subjected to enforced disappearance, torture and even execution.