UA: 27/12 Index: MDE 14/003/2012 Issue Date: 27 January 2012

PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 8 MARCH 2012 TO DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATIVES OF IRAQ IN YOUR COUNTRY AND ADDRESSED. Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. [ Lire la suite » ]

Further information on UA: 14/10 Index: MDE 14/002/2012 Issue Date: 20 January 2012

PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 2 MARCH 2012 TO THE IRAQI REPRESENTATION IN YOUR COUNTRY AND ADDRESSED TO:
Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date.

The Iraqi presidency has ratified the sentences of 11 men sentenced to death in 2010 for their alleged involvement in causing bomb explosions in August 2009. They are at risk of imminent execution. [ Lire la suite » ]

Further information on UA: 226/11 Index: MDE 14/045/2011 Issue Date: 17 November 2011

Tunisian national Yosri ben Fakher Trigui was executed in Iraq on 16 November along with 10 other people. [ Lire la suite » ]

Further information on UA: 193/11 Index: MDE 14/044/2011 Issue Date: 02 November 2011

Fifteen men sentenced to death in Iraq in June could be executed at any time after 6 November, which marks the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha. Their sentences have reportedly now been ratified by the Iraqi presidency. The Prime Minister has the power to grant them clemency. [ Lire la suite » ]

Further information on UA: 158/11 Index: MDE 14/031/2011

Four activists detained in Iraq on 27 May were released on 7 June. They allege that they were tortured in detention. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA 145/11 Index MDE 14/028/2011

Three men were sentenced to death in Iraq in April. Their lawyers have appealed, but if their sentences are upheld, the men could be executed within days.

Hadi Hassuni, ‘Abd Hassan al-Majid and Farouq Hijazi were sentenced to death on 21 April by the Supreme Iraqi Criminal Tribunal (SICT) for the 1994 murder of an Iraqi opposition leader, Taleb al-Suhail, in the Lebanese capital, Beirut. Their lawyers appealed the sentences on 12 May. The appeal chamber within the SICT will now review the case and will confirm or reject the sentences. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: 124/11 Index: MDE 14/026/2011 Issue Date: 05 May 2011

PLEASE SEND APPEALS TO THE IRAQI EMBASSY OR CONSULAR REPRESENTATION IN YOUR COUNTRY BEFORE 23 MAY 2011: Check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date.

A man sentenced to death in Iraq in 2006 is at risk of imminent execution after the Court of Cassation upheld his death sentence at the end of April 2011. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: 113/11 Index: MDE 14/022/2011 Issue Date: 14 April 2011

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PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 26 MAY 2011

Firas Ali, an Iraqi political activist, was detained at the office of the Federation of Workers’ Councils and Unions in Iraq, Baghdad, at about 2pm on 13 April. A protester, Haidar Shihab Ahmad Abdel Latif, is believed to have been detained on 1 April on Tahrir Square, Baghdad. Their whereabouts are unknown. Amnesty International fears that they and other detained activists are at high risk of torture. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: 112/11 Index: MDE 14/021/2011 Issue Date: 13 April 2011

PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 25 MAY 2011. Check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date.

Six Iranian residents of Camp Ashraf, north of Baghdad, have been detained since they were arrested at the camp on 8 April and not permitted contact with their families or lawyers. They were beaten and injured. Amnesty International fears for their safety. [ Lire la suite » ]

Further information on UA: 100/11 Index: MDE 14/016/2011

The Muslim cleric who was detained by police on 29 March was released on 6 April.

Kamran ‘Ali Khwaraham was released on 6 April at noon. For the first five days of his detention he was held incommunicado. He has been accused of involvement in unauthorized demonstrations. He is not known to have been ill-treated.

NO FURTHER ACTION IS REQUESTED FROM THE UA NETWORK. MANY THANKS TO ALL WHO SENT APPEALS.

This is the first update on UA: 100/11. Further information: http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/MDE41/015/2011/en