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IRQ - News
Iraq: Alkarama calls on U.S. authorities to publish the names of its detainees in Iraq
IRQ - News | 11 February 2010
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.
Iraq : Lawyers claim courts ‘comparable to those under the former regime'
IRQ - News | 02 February 2010
Mohamed Al-Dainy, Geneva, October 2008 |
Iraq: Ahmed Al-Mashhadani, tortured in five different detention centers, still arbitrarily detained
IRQ - News | 11 December 2009
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. Mr Al-Mashhadani later suffered torture at the hands of various Iraqi forces, and is currently detained in Baghdad's Rusafa prison.
Iraq: Reappearance of al-Dainy family and staff
IRQ - News | 27 October 2009
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 disappeared in Iraq on 25 February 2009 along with members of his family and staff after denouncing human rights violations in Iraqi jails. Alkarama has been following his case and those of people arrested and disappeared in connection with Mr al-Dainy over seven months and has sent several urgent appeals to the various UN Special Procedures in the wake of enforced disappearances, reappearances, arbitrary arrests and extrajudicial killings linked with the case.
Iraq: Enforced disappearance of Nawaf Al-Haithami since March 2007
IRQ - News | 24 September 2009
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.