Articles for Iraq

Alkarama and Al Wissam Humanitarian Assembly wrote to the UN Working Group on Enforced Disappearances to ask for the immediate release of Abbas Fadhil Abboud Kadhim Al Batawi, disappeared since his arrest by a pro-government militia almost eight years ago. Although the 20-year old Iraqi student was seen on a video footage in 2007, the authorities continue to deny his detention.

On 8 July 2014, Alkarama and Al Wissam Humanitarian Assembly requested the intervention of the UN Working  Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, with the Iraqi authorities to release Mustafa Jassim Kazem Al Rubaie immediately or at least to put him under the protection of the law. Arrested by the Iraqi authorities on 26 June 2006, the 24-year old Iraqi student was last seen on a video footage of a prison in Baghdad in February 2011, but the authorities continue to deny his detention.

During the American occupation in Iraq, numerous Iraqi citizens have been arbitrarily arrested or abducted, sometimes without specific motives. Some of them, held incommunicado in American branches, have not reappeared since. These detention centres have been handed over to the Iraqi authorities after the coalition forces left in 2011.

Ayesh Al Harby, a 41 year-old Saudi refugee, has been repeatedly detained and tortured in Iraq since his first arrest in July 2005. In 2009, he was sentenced by Al Rusafa court, Baghdad, to 15 years imprisonment following a grossly unfair trial. Ayesh and fifty eight other Saudi prisoners were transferred mid-March from Al Rusafa Prison to Al Nasiriyah, a maximum security prison located 300 km south-east of Baghdad, following a decision issued by the Ministry of Justice.

Shawki Omar, a Jordanian national with American citizenship, has spent the last 10 years behind bars in Iraq.

Alkarama has submitted its report in view of the Universal Periodic Review of Iraq, which will take place in October 2014.

Rashid Al-Masuri and Hamzah Ahmad Yahya, two Yemeni citizens who are detained in Iraq, are scheduled to appear in front of an Iraqi court on 20 May 2013, following years of arbitrary detention and mistreatment.

Twenty three year-old Yemeni, Rashid Ali Yahya al-Masuri, was scheduled to return to his country late last year, following a special Presidential amne

The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) has issued Opinion No. 43/2012 requesting the release of the 48 individuals of non-Iraqi origin, detained in Al Soussa Prison, as it finds their detention to be "arbitrary" based on information submitted by Alkarama. The detainees were subjected to severe torture and subsequently condemned to heavy sentences of imprisonment without a fair trial.