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Home » Iraq » IRQ - News » Iraq: Another Man from Dulaim Disappears from Detention Centre on the Day of His Release
Al Dulaimi was arrested from his house in the Al Dulaim village in the Babil Province and taken to the Al Aqrab prison in Hillah, where his wife was allowed to visit him on 2 November 2014. About a month after his arrest, Al Dulaimi was presented to the Hillah Court, which acquitted him and determined that he was to be released on 30 November 2014. Al Dulaimi was then taken to the Hillah Intelligence Branch to await his liberation.
On 30 November, Al Dulaimi's wife waited at the Hillah Intelligence Branch the whole day, but her husband was never released. The following day, she inquired about him in the Hillah Court, which confirmed his release order, but did not provide any further information on his fate and whereabouts. Left with no other recourse at the national level, Al Dulaimi's family contacted Al Wissam Humanitarian Assembly – an Iraqi human rights organisation documenting cases of enforced disappearances – and Alkarama, in the hope that they could help locate him.
In view of these facts, the two human rights organisations seized the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED), asking it to call upon the Iraqi authorities to release Al Dulaimi immediately, as the Hillah Court has ordered his liberation. At the very least, the authorities should disclose Al Dulaimi's whereabouts and allow his family to visit him.
Concerned over the widespread practice of enforced disappearance in Iraq, Alkarama recalls that it is essential that the Iraqi authorities urgently implement the recommendations issued by the CED in September 2015, and in particular that they:
- Incorporate enforced disappearance into domestic law as an autonomous offence, in line with the definition contained in Article 2 ICCPED;
- Ensure that all persons who were forcibly disappeared and whose fate is not yet known are searched for and located without delay.
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