updated Wed. April 10, 2024
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Xinhua
April 26, 2018
The increase in executions in Iraq has sparked calls for abolishing capital punishment from the UN, the European Union and some international human rights groups, citing the lack of transparency in Iraqi courts. Death penalty in Iraq was suspended on June 10, 2003, but was reinstated from August 8,Ãâà...
ReliefWeb
April 26, 2018
Reduction of humanitarian assistance, coupled with limited opportunities for self-reliance and unequal power relationships in IDP camps increase the risk and exposure of IDPs to human rights abuses. UNHCR has noted an increase in sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) allegations received throughÃâà...
Human Rights Watch
April 26, 2018
Human Rights Watch has interviewed hundreds of other families of ISIS suspects across Iraq who faced similar punishments after ISIS fighters fled. “The Ba'aj decree is one of the clearest pieces of evidence to date that Iraqi authorities are collectively punishing relatives of ISIS suspects,” said Lama Fakih,Ãâà...
Human Rights Watch
April 18, 2018
(Beirut) – Iraqi security officers are denying immediate relatives of suspected Islamic State (also known as ISIS) members security clearance to reclaim homes being occupied or to seek compensation, Human Rights Watch said today. Security forces have also destroyed or confiscated some property.
Human Rights Watch
April 14, 2018
(Erbil) – Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) security forces detained at least 84 protesters and four journalists in late March, Human Rights Watch ... detained because they were exercising their right to freedom of peaceful assembly, or because their right under Iraqi law to be brought before a judgeÃâà...
Human Rights Watch
April 4, 2018
In early February, Human Rights Watch published evidence suggesting Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) security forces carried out mass ... For example, dozens of Iraqi families and 27 foreign women told us that between August 22 and 29, thousands surrendered to Peshmerga forces near SahilÃâà...
Human Rights Watch
April 2, 2018
On March 29, Iraqi security forces in Baghdad apprehended an alleged Islamic State (ISIS) member and freed a 15-year-old Yezidi girl he had held captive for years. Her freedom is a relief, but hopefully the case will jumpstart the prosecution of ISIS members for the particular offenses they committed.
Al-Arabiya
December 31, 1999
In a report released on Thursday, Human Rights Watch underlined that the relatives of ISIS members in Iraq are undergoing group punishment. ... In this context, the president of the Iraqi Observatory for Human Rights, Mustafa Saadoun, told Al Arabiya.net that: “About 20,000 families or the equivalent ofÃâà...
Human Rights Watch
December 31, 1999
Iraqi forces retook Mosul's Old City from ISIS in July 2017. Human Rights Watch documented Iraqi forces rounding up ISIS suspects, torturing and then executing them that month near that site. Some of these forces were from an Iraqi army division trained by the United States government. During the sameÃâà...
