Articles for Iraq

Iraq: Execution of a Tunisian detainee in Al Rusafa Prison

Iraqi authorities should investigate the circumstances surrounding the death of Tunisian detainee Abdullah Al Matoui, assassinated in Al Rusafa Prison, Baghdad.

On 2 August 2012, Abdullah Habib Abdullah Al Matoui, a Tunisian citizen detained in Iraqi prison since 2005 was attacked and killed inside Al Rusafa prison in Baghdad.

17 Sep 2012
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Iraq: Imminent danger of the execution of an Egyptian condemned to death

On 7 November 2011, Alkarama learned that Suleiman Abderraouf, a 45-year-old Egyptian national detained in Al-Khadimiya prison in Baghdad and recently condemned to death with the approval of the Iraqi president, risks being executed at any moment.
07 Nov 2011
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Iraq: Eight people executed and 45 at risk of imminent death

On 20 October, the Iraqi president's office announced that it had approved the death sentences of 53 people, of which five are nationals of Arab countries, without setting the date of their executions. Eight of them, including Badr Mohamed Ali, a 29-year-old Moroccan national sentenced to death in 2008, were executed on 27 October 2011.
28 Oct 2011
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Iraq: Ismail Ibrahim AL-MAIQAL, detained since 2003

Mr. Ismail Ibrahim AL-MAIQAL is a 29-year-old Saudi national. Although he regularly entered Iraqi territory, in October 2003 Mr. AL-MAIQAL was the object of an identity checkpoint in Baghdad by American soldiers. He was arrested and brought to an unknown location without having been told the reasons for his arrest.

He remained detained for many days in his first place of detention where he was among many other detainees. He saw one Syrian national executed in front of him. He was tortured and beaten very violently in the head with rifle butts.

14 Jul 2011
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Iraq: Ibrahim Abdallah MOHAMED, condemned to a heavy sentence

Mr. Ibrahim Abdallah MOHAMED, a 25-year-old Yemeni national, was arrested on 24 January 2005 at an American and Iraqi identity checkpoint although he entered the territory legally from Jordan. He was brought to an unknown location and was subjected to ill treatment and was deliberately deprived of food for almost a week.

He was then brought to Baghdad to another place of detention before being brought to Baghdad airport.

06 Jul 2011
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Iraq: Abdallah Hamoud AL-TWIJRI, savagely tortured

Mr. Abdallah Hamoud AL-TWIJRI, a 29-year-old Saudi national, was arrested in October 2004 by American soldiers at the Syrian border at Al-Qa'im and immediately brought to a military barracks where he was detained for 15 days. He reports having been tied up for several days upside down with his feet and hands bound and being thrown on the ground to be exposed to the sun all day before being placed back in his cell.
06 Jul 2011
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Iraq: Azzedine BOUJNANE, tortured and imprisoned at Abu Ghraib

Mr. Azzedine Mohamed Abdeslam BOUJNANE is a 28-year-old Moroccan national. Three weeks after his arrival in Iraq for humanitarian purposes, Mr. BOUJNANE was arrested at the end of February 2004 by American soldiers in Baghdad and brought to Baghdad airport. He also reports that he was treated inhumanely with his hands and feet tied.
06 Jul 2011
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Iraq: Mohamed Ouabed, tortured and condemned to a heavy sentence

Mr. Mohamed Ahmed OUABED is a 36-year-old Algerian national who is a merchant in Mosul where he normally lives. He was arrested on 18 May 2005 at his home by members of the American armed forces.

He was transferred to the Mosul airport where he was detained in secret for 10 days. During that time he reports being tortured not only by the American officers who arrested him but also by member of the Iraqi security services wearing civilian clothing or American uniforms.

06 Jul 2011
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Iraq: Risk of execution of five foreign nationals sentenced to death

Yousri Al-Tariqi, Tunisian, Badr Ashour Ali, Moroccan, Mohamed Fraj Allah, Libyan, Adel Ali, Libyan, and Nasser Mojib, Saudi Arabian, are detained at Soussa prison in Suleimaniyah (in Iraqi Kurdistan) and had been sentenced to death between 2006 and 2010. They may be executed soon.

1. Mr. Yousri Fakher Mohamed AL-TARIQI, a Tunisian national, was arrested 5 May 2006 in the provice of Salaheddine in northern Iraq by members of the Iraqi security forces.

01 Jul 2011
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Iraq: The Yemeni Hasna Ali Yahya Hussein was sentenced to life in prison at a hearing that did not exceed 10 minutes

Based on a single court session that did not last longer than 10 minutes and after more than one year of arbitrary detention and ill treatment the Yemeni prisoner Hasna Ali Yahya Hussein was sentenced by an Iraqi court to lifelong imprisonment.

On 25 May 2011 Alkarama sent a complaint to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, requesting it to intervene with the Iraqi authorities and asking the latter to take the necessary measures for the release of Mrs. Hasna Ali Yahya Hussein, as well as to provide her with appropriate compensation.

23 Jun 2011
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