In the Middle East and North Africa region, human rights defenders are all too often vilified, persecuted and even criminalized for their peaceful activities. This ...
On 9 March 2009 the Iraqi Supreme Judicial Council informed Amnesty International that Iraq’s Presidential Council has ratified the death sentences of 128 people ...
Women and girls in Iraq are suffering from systematic violence and a sustained assault on their human rights. In addition to being victims of the bombings and other ...
According to the Iraqi Supreme Judicial Council's website, seven people under sentence of death had their sentences upheld by the Cassation Court on 8 February ...
Ibrahim Karim Mohammed al-Qaragholi has been sentenced to death for kidnapping and killing three US soldiers. According to one of Ibrahim Karim Mohammed al-Qaragholi's ...
Shaheed ‘Abdulhussain ‘Abbas ‘Amouri, Mohammed ‘Ali ‘Abdulzahra Hamad ‘Amouri and Naji ‘Aboud ‘Obidawi are at risk of being forcibly returned from Iraq to Iran ...
The journalist who threw his shoes at US President George W Bush isreported to have suffered various injuries after being beaten up bysecurity officials.
