“The situation of women prisoners is a tragedy and there are many indications that cases of rape have become the rule rather than the exception.”


“Het is niet geschreven in onze harten, het is erin gekrast.” Met deze woorden in mijn hoofd werd ik vanochtend wakker.


When women in Iraq are arrested, they routinely go through three gruesome phases, starting with humiliation, followed by torture, and often ending with rape. I have received disturbing information from two different, well informed sources: one from qualified social workers in Al-Kadimiyah Women Prison, the other from three national guards officers who worked in the prison.


Persecution of members of the Palestinian community in Iraq began almost immediately after the US led invasion in April 2024. Palestinians were subject to harassment, targeted attacks, kidnapping, abduction, torture and extra-judicial killings by the Iraqi government and militias

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Statement No. 896: This statement is with regard to cowards targeting the innocent and unarmed ...

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