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Press Release
Number of Iraqi Executions Alarming After Former Saddam Hussein Aide Hanged
Former presidential secretary Abed Hamoud's hanging takes the total number of executions in Iraq in the first half of 2012 to at least 70.
June 8, 2012
Press Release
Amnesty International Calls on U.K. Authorities to Deliver Justice Over Baha Mousa Abuse Case
Amnesty International has called on the U.K. authorities to bring to justice all those responsible for the death Baha Mousa, after an inquiry into the death of the Iraqi hotel receptionist found that U.K. soldiers violently assaulted him while in custody in Basra in 2003.
September 8, 2011
Report
Annual Report: Iraq 2011
Head of state: Jalal Talabani Head of government: Nuri al-Maliki Death penalty: retentionist Population: 31.5 million Life expectancy: 68.5 years Under-5 mortality (m/f): 43/38 per 1,000 Adult literacy: 77.6 per cent Armed groups opposed to the government carried out numerous suicide bomb and other attacks, killing hundreds of civilians. Militia groups also carried out targeted killings. Serious human rights violations were committed by Iraqi security forces and US troops: thousands of people were detained without charge or trial, including some held for several years, although many others were released. All prisons formerly controlled by US forces were transferred to Iraqi…
June 21, 2011
Press Release
Amnesty International Calls on Iraqi Authorities to Stop Clampdown on Peaceful Protests
Amnesty International has called on the Iraqi authorities to end their clampdown on peaceful protests following the arrest of 15 pro-reform activists in Baghdad in recent days.
June 1, 2011
Press Release
Amnesty International Calls on Iraqi Authorities to Stop Clampdown on Peaceful Protests
Amnesty International has called on the Iraqi authorities to end their clampdown on peaceful protests following the arrest of 15 pro-reform activists in Baghdad in recent days.
June 1, 2011
Press Release
Iraq: Amnesty International Urges Iraqi Authorites to End Attacks on Protesters and Threats Against Government Critics
Amnesty InternationalPress Release Release Monday, April 11, 2001Amnesty International Urges Iraqi Authorites to End Attacks on Protesters and Threats Against Government CriticsNew Report Says Journalists, Academics, Students and Others are Being Targeted in Iraq and Kurdistan RegionContact: Suzanne Trimel, 212-633-4150, [email protected](New York) – Iraqi authorities are threatening, harrassing and intimidating government critics, journalists, academics, protest organizers and others who are speaking out against chronic lack of services, widespread unemployment, human rights abuses and corruption, Amnesty International said in a report issued today.Days of Rage: Protests and Repression in Iraq documents the killings of pro-democracy protesters by Iraqi and Kurdish forces,…
May 6, 2011
Press Release
Iraq: Amnesty International Urges Iraqi Authorites to End Attacks on Protesters and Threats Against Government Critics
Amnesty InternationalPress Release Release Monday, April 11, 2001Amnesty International Urges Iraqi Authorites to End Attacks on Protesters and Threats Against Government CriticsNew Report Says Journalists, Academics, Students and Others are Being Targeted in Iraq and Kurdistan RegionContact: Suzanne Trimel, 212-633-4150, [email protected](New York) – Iraqi authorities are threatening, harrassing and intimidating government critics, journalists, academics, protest organizers and others who are speaking out against chronic lack of services, widespread unemployment, human rights abuses and corruption, Amnesty International said in a report issued today.Days of Rage: Protests and Repression in Iraq documents the killings of pro-democracy protesters by Iraqi and Kurdish forces,…
May 6, 2011
Press Release
State Department Human Rights Reports Provide Roadmap to Reform in the Middle East
Amnesty International Media StatementFor Immediate ReleaseFriday, April 8, 2011State Department Human Rights Reports Provide Roadmap to Reform in the Middle East, Says Amnesty InternationalContact: Gwen Fitzgerald, 202.509.8194, [email protected](WASHINGTON, DC) – Following today’s release of the Department of State Country Reports on Human Rights, Amnesty International USA (AIUSA) Managing Director of Government Relations Adotei Akwei issued the following statement. "AIUSA welcomes the release of the 2010 reports. These reports can provide an invaluable roadmap to reforming U.S. relations with evolving and existing governments in the Middle East and North Africa and should serve as the guiding principles for necessary course corrections…
April 14, 2011
Press Release
State Department Human Rights Reports Provide Roadmap to Reform in the Middle East
Amnesty International Media StatementFor Immediate ReleaseFriday, April 8, 2011State Department Human Rights Reports Provide Roadmap to Reform in the Middle East, Says Amnesty InternationalContact: Gwen Fitzgerald, 202.509.8194, [email protected](WASHINGTON, DC) – Following today’s release of the Department of State Country Reports on Human Rights, Amnesty International USA (AIUSA) Managing Director of Government Relations Adotei Akwei issued the following statement. "AIUSA welcomes the release of the 2010 reports. These reports can provide an invaluable roadmap to reforming U.S. relations with evolving and existing governments in the Middle East and North Africa and should serve as the guiding principles for necessary course corrections…
April 14, 2011
Report
Iraqi authorities must halt attacks on protesters
Thousands of Iraqis have taken to the streets since early February 2011 to protest against the chronic lack of basic services, rising prices, mass unemployment and endemic corruption, and to demand greater civil and political rights. The security forces have frequently responded with excessive force to forcibly disperse peaceful protesters. Amnesty International is urging the authorities to crack down on the use of excessive force and torture by their security forces, not on the right of people to peacefully protest.
April 11, 2011
Press Release
Iraq: Man Jailed for Five Years on Spurious Terror Charges, Says Amnesty International
Amnesty International has called on the authorities in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) to release an Iraqi man who was...
March 27, 2011
Press Release
Iraqi man jailed for five years on spurious terror charges
Walid Yunis Ahmad, who had already been detained without trial for 11 years, was convicted of "sending orders and instructions from prison to his followers in Kirkuk and Mosul to carry out terrorist attacks in Dohuk in 2009" by the criminal court in Dohuk on Thursday.
March 27, 2011