Articles for Iraq

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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Iraq: Liberation of Mahmoud Farhan after four months of disappearance

Alkarama learned that Mahmoud Kareem Farhan who had been abducted on 22 February 2009 at the office of Mr Al-Dainy, an Iraqi MP who is currently being pursued, was released on 22 June 2009, four months after his detention in Baghdad's Green Zone.

On 20 May 2009 Alkarama sent a communication to the Working Group on Enforced Disappearances and the Special Rapporteur against Torture to ask them to urgently intervene with the authorities in Iraq in the case of eleven people arrested that same day and under the same circumstance

21 Jul 2009
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Iraq: Alkarama provides information to the IPU Committee for the Human Rights of Parliamentarians

On 29 June 2009, Alkarama's Legal Director, Rachid Mesli and Senior Legal Officer Deborah Manning were invited to present information at the 126th session of the International Parliamentary Union (IPU) Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians.
29 Jun 2009
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Iraq: Reappearance of MP Mohammad Al-Dainy

According to information obtained by Alkarama, the Iraqi MP and human rights defender Mohammed Al-Dainy, arrested on 25 February 2009 by Iraqi government forces, has reappeared.

On 25 May 2009, Al-Dainy made a statement on the Iraqi television channel Al-Rai, in which he refuted all charges brought against him by the Iraqi government. He is accused of having illegally disregarded his immunity clause as a Member of Parliament.

30 May 2009
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