Articles for Iraq

Shawki Omar, a Jordanian national with American citizenship, has spent the last 10 years behind bars in Iraq.

Alkarama has submitted its report in view of the Universal Periodic Review of Iraq, which will take place in October 2014.

Rashid Al-Masuri and Hamzah Ahmad Yahya, two Yemeni citizens who are detained in Iraq, are scheduled to appear in front of an Iraqi court on 20 May 2013, following years of arbitrary detention and mistreatment.

Twenty three year-old Yemeni, Rashid Ali Yahya al-Masuri, was scheduled to return to his country late last year, following a special Presidential amne

The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) has issued Opinion No. 43/2012 requesting the release of the 48 individuals of non-Iraqi origin, detained in Al Soussa Prison, as it finds their detention to be "arbitrary" based on information submitted by Alkarama. The detainees were subjected to severe torture and subsequently condemned to heavy sentences of imprisonment without a fair trial.

After his arrival in Iraq for work, Mr Shawki Ahmed Omar, now 52, Jordanian national with US citizenship, was arrested in October 2004 with his then pregnant wife. He was not only beaten, but also repeatedly tortured by electric shocks and simulations of drowning. To protest against his ongoing arbitrary detention in Karakh Prison and the torture he was recently subjected to, he began a hunger strike on 4 February 2013. Yesterday, 12 February 2013, his family members organized sit-ins in front of the Iraqi Embassies in London and Amman in his support.