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Iraq: Journalist Guhdar Zebari Released After Unjust Detention

On February 17, the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KR-I) authorities finally released journalist Guhdar Zebari, ending his over three-year wrongful...

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Iraq: Journalist Guhdar Zebari Released After Unjust Detention

On February 17, the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KR-I) authorities finally released journalist Guhdar Zebari, ending his over three-year wrongful...

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Iraq: Reveal fate of disappeared journalist, Bassem al-Zaak

On October 24, 2021, journalist Bassem al-Zaak was abducted while he was live-streaming a sit-in organized by a political bloc...

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Iraq: Demand truth and justice for disappeared activist

On September 19, 2020, a group of armed men abducted Sajjad al-Iraqi from a vehicle he was travelling in with...

Iraq: Hundreds Still Disappeared FIve Years On

DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 59/21 HERE  At least 643 men and boys from Anbar governorate in central Iraq have...

Iraq/Kurdistan Regional Government:Highest Court Upholds Prison Sentence

DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 28/21, UPDATE 1 HERE On 28 April, the Court of Appeal upheld the prison sentence...

Iraq: Yezidi child survivors of ‘Islamic State’ facing unprecedented health crisis

Almost 2,000 Yezidi children who have returned to their families after being held captive by the armed group calling itself...

Iraq: 3D reconstruction shows security forces deliberately killed protesters

An exclusive new visual investigation by Amnesty International and SITU Research shows that Iraqi security forces intended to kill or...

Iraq: Horrific scenes as security forces resort to lethal force to disperse Karbala protests

Iraqi security forces resorted yet again to excessive and unlawful lethal force to disperse crowds of largely peaceful protesters in...

Iraq: Stop forced returns of hundreds of internally displaced people

Responding to news that hundreds of internally displaced Iraqis, mostly women and children, have been forcibly returned today from a...

Iraq: Draconian cybercrimes law threatens freedom of expression

A new cybercrimes law that would impose heavy prison sentences and hefty fines against peaceful critics who express themselves online...

Iraq: Coalition should follow Australia’s lead after military admits civilian deaths in Mosul

Responding to the Australian Defence Force’s (ADF) admission that its air strikes in Mosul, Iraq may have caused up to...

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