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Maghreb and Middle East: Annual report focused on the situation of human rights defenders [ID 10060]

28.05.2008 - Source: Amnesty International

Abuses by armed groups ("Annual Report 2008") [ID 23517]

"Armed groups, including Islamist and nationalist groups fighting against the US-led forces and the Iraqi government, as well as al-Qa’ida and militias affiliated to Shi’a religious groups, committed gross human rights abuses. Many of the abuses were committed in the course of sectarian violence between Shi’a and Sunni armed groups, who sought to clear mixed neighbourhoods of Sunni and Shi’a respectively, abducting people from their homes or in the streets and murdering them. Often, bodies were dumped bearing evidence of mutilation or torture. Members of other religious and ethnic minorities were also targeted for such abuses, including Yezidis, Christians, Sabeans and Palestinians, as were women, human rights defenders, judges, medical doctors and other professionals.


On 18 April at least 140 people were killed by a car bomb detonated at the market in al-Sadriya, a predominantly Shi’a district of Baghdad.

On 12 May Dr Adib Ibrahim al-Jalabi, a medical doctor and a leading figure in the Islamic Organization for Human Rights (Mosul), was assassinated by armed men, believed to be from al-Qa’ida, after leaving his clinic in Mosul.

On 3 June Chaldean priest, Fr Ragheed Ganni, and three deacons were shot dead by unknown assailants in Mosul.

On 7 July some 150 people were killed and more than 265 injured in a suicide car bomb attack at the marketplace in Amerli, a predominantly Shi’a Turkmen village in Salahuddin governorate.

In August, Mostafa Ahmad, a taxi driver and Palestinian refugee, was abducted by armed men apparently from the Mahdi Army. Two days later his abductors used his mobile phone to tell his family to collect his body from the morgue; he had been tortured with a drill, his teeth had been ripped out, and he had been shot six times.

On 14 August, more than 400 people were killed and at least 300 injured by four suicide bombers who blew up fuel tanks in al-Qahtaniya, al-Jazeera and Tal Uzair, all villages near the Syrian border inhabited mostly by members of the minority Yezidi religious sect. Many children were among the victims.

On 28 October Shehab Mohammad al-Hiti, a Sunni and editor of the weekly Baghdad al-Youm newspaper, was abducted in al-Jamia, Baghdad. He was later found shot dead."

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10.12.2006 - Source: Integrated Regional Information Network

Sectarian violence causing displacement and targeted attacks are continuing to further deepen the situation of human rights, local and international NGOs say ("Respect for human rights still a dream") [ID 18200]

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28.02.2005 - Source: US Department of State

Country Report on Human Rights Practices 2004 ("Country Report on Human Rights Practices 2004") [#29526],  [ID 10062]

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13.01.2005 - Source: Human Rights Watch

Annual report on human rights situation in 2004 ("World report 2005") [#28234],  [ID 10063]

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22.09.2004 - Source: Freedom House

Annual survey of political rights and civil liberties 2003 ("Freedom in the World 2004") [#25847],  [ID 10065]

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08.2004 - Source: UN High Commissioner for Refugees

Report on the current security and legal situation, material safety, displacement situation, human rights and protection situation as well as an overall analysis ("Country of Origin Information (COI) paper on Iraq (as of August 2004)") [#24717],  [ID 10066]

Freedom of movement, detention, right to personal security, socio-economic rights, freedom of expression, freedom of religion

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28.06.2004 - Source: Amnesty International

Report on human rights protection and urgently-needed human rights reforms ("Human rights protection and promotion vital in the transitional period") [#23604],  [ID 10067]

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09.06.2004 - Source: UN Human Rights Council (formerly UN Commission on Human Rights)

Report focused on political, military, security and human rights situation ( treatment during arrest, detention) and the situation of children and women ("Report of the High comissioner for human rights and fallow-up to the world conference on human rights E/CN.4/2005/ 4") [#25826],  [ID 10068]

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26.05.2004 - Source: Amnesty International

Annual Report 2004 (covering 2003) ("Annual Report 2004") [#22672],  [ID 10069]

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17.07.2003 - Source: UN Security Council

Report of the Secretary-General on the security and human rights situation ("Report of the Secretary-General pursuant to paragraph 24 of Security Council resolution 1483 (2003) (S/2003/715)") [#14776],  [ID 10075]

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20.06.2003 - Source: Amnesty International

Report on human rights and the economic reconstruction process in Iraq ("Iraq: On Whose Behalf? Human Rights and the Economic Reconstruction Process in Iraq") [#13652],  [ID 10077]

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