Articles for Iraq

An Iraqi citizen who disappeared following her abduction on 24 September 2019, Efane Hatem Dahham AL ABBASSI was finally located in Baghdad's women's prison. 

Victim of enforced disappearance since her abduction, the Iraqi authorities finally acknowledged Efane's detention and announced that she was sentenced to 15 years of prison for terrorism allegations. 

Iraq was recently called upon by the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances to reveal the fate of Ibrahim Sobhi Moussa Alwan Al Jabouri, Ali Alwan Khalaf Al Janabi and Amer Abdul Majeed Al-Tikriti, who have been missing for many years now. 

On 11 May 2023, Alkarama sent an urgent appeal to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on torture calling on Iraq to refrain from returning Mr. Azmi Derri Mohamed AL HADDAR, a Syrian national arbitrarily detained in Al Rusafa prison in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. 

Arrest and sentencing of Al Haddar 

On 20 March 2023, UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances called on Iraq to reveal the fate of Iraqi citizen Yahya AL JABOURI, who has disappeared since his abduction on 8 July 2014 from his home. 

The UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances has called on the Iraqi government to clarify the fate of Hasan Mohamed Hasan AL ESSA, Yahya AL JABOURI and Dawood Salman Hasan Haboush Hassan AL ISSAWI, all of whom disappeared following their arbitrary arrests in 2014 and 2015.

Dawood Salman Hasan Haboush Hassan Al Issawi, arrested by Shia militia

On 19 December 2022 Iraq was urged by the UN Committee against Enforced Disappearances (CED) to reveal the fate of Salam Al Boumahidi and Hazim Al Ezzawi, Iraqi citizens who disappeared during 2014 following their abduction by the Iraqi army.

The United Nations Committee on Enforced Disappearances is visiting Iraq starting November 12 to determine ways to address cases of enforced disappearance in line with its mandate under Article 33 of the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance.

The UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances, responsible for monitoring the implementation of the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance ratified by Iraq on 23 November 2010, urged the State party on 18 October 2022 to reveal the fate of Saleh Musa Ahmed Mohammed AL BAYDANI (1993) who has been miss

On October 17, 2022, Iraq was called upon by the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances to reveal the fate of Iraqi citizen, Amer Al Kartani, who has been missing since he was abducted from his family home on May 21, 2014.

Alkarama’s director, Rachid Mesli, said during his online participation in a human rights symposium on the occasion of the International Day of Victims of Enforced Disappearances, “The Iraqi authorities are unwilling to hold those involved in the crimes of enforced disappearance to account.”, pointing to the clear complicity between successive governments and the militias that commit these crimes.