Articles for Iraq

USA/Iraq: Omar Al-Utaibi disappeared - Iraqi authorities deny involvement

Omar Al-Utaibi was arrested at an Iraqi-American military checkpoint in Al-Falouja on 31 January 2004 and has since disappeared. The Iraqi authorities denied holding him.

07 Apr 2010
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Iraq: Victim of 2005 Interior Ministry kidnapping - Hassan Alani was only 15, and has since disappeared

Alkarama has asked the Working Group on Enforced Disappearances (WGEID), today, to contact thee Iraqi authorities with regards to the disappearance of Hassan Alani, who was abducted by agents of the Iraqi Interior Ministry from outside his home in Baghdad on 6 September 2005. He was 15 years old at the time and it has been almost five year since Hassan's parents last heard any news.

Wrongfully kidnapped
23 Feb 2010
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Iraq: Alkarama calls on U.S. authorities to publish the names of its detainees in Iraq

U.S. authorities announced on 18 December 2009 that they would hand over Al-Tajji detention center, located northwest of Baghdad and currently controlled by the U.S. military, to the Iraqi government as of March 2010.

At the time of the statement, the U.S. occupying forces acknowledged having 6210 detainees, including two minors, 38 officials of the Baath Party and four foreign nationals, without specifying whether the number of prisoners was only limited to Al-Tajji detention center.

11 Feb 2010
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Iraq : Lawyers claim courts ‘comparable to those under the former regime'

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Mohamed Al-Dainy, Geneva, October 2008
02 Feb 2010
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Iraq: Ahmed Al-Mashhadani, tortured in five different detention centers, still arbitrarily detained

Iraq is a stomping ground for armed struggle, human rights violations and general discontent. Despite the US occupying forces attempts to keep these elements at bay, it has become clear that Iraq's human rights record has not improved. As the Iraqi militias continue to grow in strength, more and more prisoners and the accused are flooding an already inadequate Iraqi judicial system. A recent victim of this quandary is Ahmed Abd Saleh Al-Mashhadani, a retired military officer, who was arrested on 29 September 2006 in Baghdad by an Iraqi militia.
11 Dec 2009
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Iraq: Reappearance of al-Dainy family and staff

Alkarama has received information from Iraq regarding the reappearance of seven individuals who were arrested and disappeared in connection with Mohammed al-Dainy, a well-known Iraqi human rights activist and Parliamentarian who visited Alkarama in Geneva in late October 2008 and then later
27 Oct 2009
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Iraq: Enforced disappearance of Nawaf Al-Haithami since March 2007

At the end of March 2007, Nawaf Abdullah Alawi Nasser Al-Haithami's family lost all contact with him in Iraq. His family feared the worst due to the precarious security situation in Iraq. They later learned however, through an anonymous phone call from ‘an Iraqi family', that Nawaf was being held in U.S.-run Camp Buka Prison, now closed as of 17 September 2009.

The initial message he relayed through the Iraqi family of another prisoner was that he was fine and that he had been arrested by U.S.

24 Sep 2009
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Iraq: Extrajudicial execution of Hakki Ismail

Hakki Ismail was executed on the night of 25 July 2009, probably by the Iraqi authorities. He was a human rights advocate who worked in defense of the victims of violations committed by the Iraqi government. He recently dealt with cases of people who had connections with the Iraqi MP Mohammad Al-Dainy, who was himself persecuted.
24 Aug 2009
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Iraq: IPU to further investigate the case of Iraqi MP Mohammad Al-Dainy

During the 126th session of the IPU (Inter-Parliamentary Union) Committee on Human Rights of Parliamentarians, held between 28 June and 1 July 2009, new decisions were adopted with regards to the on-going case of Iraqi MP Mohammad Al-Dainy.

You may recall that in late February 2009,

27 Jul 2009
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Iraq: Assassination of Iraqi MP Hareth Al-Obaidi

Iraqi MP Hareth Al-Obaidi and one of his colleagues were murdered on 12 June 2009 by an unknown assailant as they left Al-Shawwaf mosque in Baghdad. Mr Al-Obaidi was heavily involved in the defense of human rights.

On 23 July 2009 Alkarama addressed itself to the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) requesting a preliminary inquiry into the circumstances of the death of Mr. Al-Obaidi. The Iraqi authorities have also ordered an investigation, and the IPU should seek to be informed of any developments in this case.

24 Jul 2009
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